Shilla, sadiqhassan and SFO_FT:

Thanx for your helpfull responds.

I thought SFO_FTs suggestion to get on the waitlists of EK 418 and 432 was a good idea, so I called my travelagent. She said she couldn't do it because EK would find out and kick one booking out of the system.

That didn't sound plausible to me: Wouldn't EK do anything to sell the higher priced ticket - esp. when it moves passengers from highly booked EK406 to not so higly booked EK 418 or EK432?

I called Emirates and to my surprise they said there was nothing they could do for me: Travel agents had limited rights when it comes to placing passengers on different waiting lists when it's not an upgrade on the same flight. And since the booking was made by a travelagent they couldn't do it neither...

Hmmm - looks like I have to hope for the small chance of C-class clearing up on EK 406/413)

Regards
PeterMaas