Originally Posted by
NYC1
I looked, so I'll be the one..."told you"
It totally depends on the route and other factors but EK is also not looking to "give away" these seats when they think they can sell them for cash (which they often can).
If they can sell them, so be it. But going back a few years, it was much easier to find F awards on all sorts of routes, including the really popular ones like JFK-DXB, ORD-DXB. Now, you can't, unless very close to departure. And I'm assuming that Emirates didn't have trouble selling F seats back then either. So something definitely changed.