Yes, the agent confirmed that Maldives and Seychelles is excluded from using Continental miles and that there was no pricing in place for these destinations. Emirates will give space; but there is no pricing in place for Dubai to Maldives. It seems like Continental just needs to have their pricing department add Seychelles and Maldives as a 10D award from Europe and it would work perfectly, because Emirates is willing to give Continental award seats on the flights, just afterwards Continental cannot price the award. They tried pricing Dubai to Seychelles by itself and that didn't work either; but they could price Paris to Dubai.

Cheers

Timo