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eightblack Nov 1, 2012 1:43 am

Miles Posting Delay
 
Folks

There's a systemwide IT glitch at present, causing delays in miles posting to members accounts. Not sure when its being fixed, but the IT teams are working on it. Best advice is to call EK and have them post the miles manually, which they can do on the spot.

Make sure you keep all boarding passes/ticket stubs or at least have your ticket number as a reference.

I've sent an email to DXB asking for an update, so as soon as I hear more will let you know.

Cheers

SIMON

comflyer Nov 1, 2012 2:59 am

I have noticed the same problem. Miles earned appeared in my skywards account more than three days after sectors completed. They would normally show within 24 hours. There are some more problems currently. I booked two flights through business rewards. The future booking and future miles did not apepar in my Skywards account. They would normally show within a few hours after the booking was made. This time they only showed after I contacted Skywards via web form. I guess this was through a manual adjustment.

HelloKittysMum Nov 1, 2012 8:46 am

I finally got all mine sorted (nearly a week after the flight was taken) by emailing them. Pretty pathetic that the email told me to quote my Skywards number on all bookings or use the website when all this had been done and it was clearly a problem with their systems.

TRAVELSIG Nov 1, 2012 10:41 am


Originally Posted by HelloKittysMum (Post 19604434)
I finally got all mine sorted (nearly a week after the flight was taken) by emailing them. Pretty pathetic that the email told me to quote my Skywards number on all bookings or use the website when all this had been done and it was clearly a problem with their systems.

It took me last week to get flights from 2 weeks ago sorted out- but in the end it was all sorted out by email. Definitely there are some issues at the moment.

Budley Nov 1, 2012 4:13 pm


Originally Posted by eightblack (Post 19602997)
Folks

There's a systemwide IT glitch at present, causing delays in miles posting to members accounts. Not sure when its being fixed, but the IT teams are working on it. Best advice is to call EK and have them post the miles manually, which they can do on the spot.

SIMON

Maybe they "can do", but when I phoned and got the Indian call centre it was a case of "wouldn't do". I was told to email Skywards in Dubai. Great service (not)!

Further I was really pee'd off because I wanted to use the miles for an upgrade which was available when I expected the miles to be credited, but when they actually arrived in my account a few days later, guess what? Yes, of course, the upgrade availability had vanished.

Must say I'm getting less impressed with Emirates by the day. Maybe time to look for an alternative.

eightblack Nov 1, 2012 4:18 pm


Originally Posted by Budley (Post 19607311)
Maybe they "can do", but when I phoned and got the Indian call centre it was a case of "wouldn't do". I was told to email Skywards in Dubai. Great service (not)!

Further I was really pee'd off because I wanted to use the miles for an upgrade which was available when I expected the miles to be credited, but when they actually arrived in my account a few days later, guess what? Yes, of course, the upgrade availability had vanished.

Must say I'm getting less impressed with Emirates by the day. Maybe time to look for an alternative.

I would have simply hung up and called back. Same thing happened to me this week. I needed the miles to post to my account from the night before. They hadnt, called EK, was routed to India and I experienced the best agent I have ever had the pleasure of talking to. She posted the miles immediately and then went and had a supervisor release J seats for the upgrade award I wanted (DXB-JFK) for mid December.

LOOK-See Nov 2, 2012 3:05 am

Flew CMN_DXB on Monday 10/29 in J class and was disappointed not to see the miles appear in the account soon after (have come to expect big things of EK by the standards they set). Interesting my wife and children who flew with me on the same flight (under a separate PNR) had the miles credited to their respective accounts within 24 hours.

After reading this thread, called EK and they took care of it on the spot! ^

Thanks Eightblack et all.

smjkkatholik Nov 5, 2012 10:08 pm


Originally Posted by HelloKittysMum (Post 19604434)
I finally got all mine sorted (nearly a week after the flight was taken) by emailing them. Pretty pathetic that the email told me to quote my Skywards number on all bookings or use the website when all this had been done and it was clearly a problem with their systems.

Same thing happened to me on my recent flight. Agree that is some problem with the system.

w00t Nov 5, 2012 10:27 pm

They finally posted 2 flights on my account yesterday evening which are about a week old. Last flight from Saturday is still not in.
Seems it is not fixed yet.

Maigret Nov 6, 2012 3:59 am

Only one data point, but my miles from Saturday had posted yesterday morning, so it may be getting back to 'normal'

JM

yyzlhr Nov 6, 2012 5:35 am

I have noticed that a return flight form DME had posted in the details but the overall balance did not change for two days.

Zol Nov 6, 2012 6:48 am

My Thursday flight last week hasn't posted yet !

mrtdxb Nov 6, 2012 6:55 am

I had a day trip from DXB to LGW on Friday and the outpound posted but the return did not. Waited 48 hours and reported it through "Missing Miles' on line and they posted 24 hours later. May be a glitch (still) or the conspiracy theorists among us may see it as a plot to reduce their miles liabilities by winning some from those who do not track as closely as we all do ...;)

B747-437B Nov 6, 2012 8:08 am

My flight last night was posted by this morning.

HelloKittysMum Nov 6, 2012 9:04 am


Originally Posted by B747-437B (Post 19633870)
My flight last night was posted by this morning.

Mine too


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