Been doing a lot of travel to South America of late, KLM/ AF but had to do a very short notice trip to Bangkok. So came out on EK from Manchester, and got bumped up from J to F for the DXB to BKK sector, again. I have doen this trip maybe 3 times in the last 12 months, and got upped everytime.
The God's must be smiling down on me, and the service throughout was as always impeccable.

Got my 50,000 level miles for next year sorted too, so thats a bonus !

Was the UG on the A380?

Nice to here your report, people are more inclined to write when something is not to there liking.

The first two were on the A380, this one was a 3 class 777-300ER. Nice suite though !

I love them even more now, upped on the way back too ! Pity there's no 1st on the Manchester leg, it'll feel so poor slumming it in business !

However.................

Got assigned my seat (2K) and got settled in. Ther was a bit of a kerfuffle over on row 1, someone's seat wouldn't recline (even though of course for taxi take off and landing it should have been upright). The ground engineers were called, took the seat apart, but to no avail. It wouldn't move.

Cue the purser, asking me if I would either swap seats into the non reclining one, or return to my original business allocation, thereby removing the upgrade !

I politely declined, and she went round asking everyone else who had been upgraded if they would move, eventually somone in less need of sleep than me agreed.

Was I right to refuse, or should I have given in and taken the broken seat ? As I see it, it's the luck of the draw if you get a seat that doesn't perform, heaven knows I have had it often enough.

Oh hang on, now got a 2 hour delay for the Manchester flight, Birmingham too, means I will me home about midnight !

Emirates is great thwn things go good, but how often does it have a little wobble ?

Time to get outside of a couple of glasses of fizzy grape juice methinks.

I agree with you tezzer, it is simply luck of the draw, but on the otherhand, if the passenger on the broken seat was a full-fare paying passenger, he should be able to change seats to a working one. How the airline selects which upgraded pax has to switch to the broken seat or return to business is another debate entirely.

Enjoy your bubbly!!!

Wait till 1st September when the A380 starts flying out of MAN. Due to fly out on the 31st August (bad planning) tempted to delay the flight by a day

Its rumoured that the 777 also then changes to a 3-class aircraft. Fingers crossed!!

380 to be used on the Manchester route is to be 2 class, apparently.

Unlucky 1

Just bump this to contrast the "nightmare flying with Emirates thread" - kinda funny when I saw these two threads together

Same thought here ;-)

Not acording to the website. It should be a shorter range, 3 class aircraft.

Nah, it's 3 class. Emirates don't have any 2 class A380's (yet!).

I've heard a rumour that it may be delayed for a week.

Cheers,
Rick

We got away 90 minutes late, got my dinner down me, and earlpugs in !

My sleep was broken by a kiddie in the row behind me who had hot his hand wedged into the workings of the seat and was screaming loud enough to bring the plane down. While I don't deny it was a painful or more likely frightening experience he was fine five minutes later once he had a cuddle from his mum and several bags of M&M's from the CC.