Originally Posted by
BA Humbug
Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating from sunny KUL, where popping noises at night are fireworks and not interceptions!
EK has loaded its updated flight schedule for 29 March until 30 April, with a schedule that's about 85%-90% (by my estimate) of the full schedule. Most multi-frequency destinations have at least 2 flights per day, and once-a-day flights all seem to be there as per random checks.
If you are flying within this period, double check your itinerary hasn't been jiggled with -- I had to move around a number of flights as the default seems to be moving you onto the next available flight (I.e. +20 hours instead of -4h on a daily flight).
Friend who is travelling BKK-DXB-BRU on 03APR has received an email now about their flight changes. It's an involuntary change (obviously) resulting in a later departure and arrival of +/- 9 hours.
To be honest, it's not that bad and I think EK is managing this very well. But -- since their original flight is basically cancelled -- can they now try to have it rebooked on another airline (direct flight, or another connection bypassing the Middle East) ?
I'm not sure what their policy regarding OAL is right now. Anyone has a recent update about this?