well, my mom is a regular customer to this guy, who owns a money remittance center and he also books flights. and this guy have some, i dont know how to call them, maybe staff that work in a travel agency. Neither of my parent have credit card or visa card they dont like it and we dont fly that much only once in every let say 2-3 years.

Larnaca-Dubai-Manila return. He charged me (my mom actually) 2,000EUR.

This sounds remarkably dodgy to me and I would be insisting on the money back from the agent. I can understand not liking credit cards, but there are certain times when I would only use them - such as booking flights

This seems quite a bit lower than EK's published fare . Is your current fare basis showing as BLE1YCY1 ?

Checking online, the lowest EK business class fare (I class) seems to be EUR3048

There are consolidators that can have special fares however a business class special fare would still be booked in business class

It looks to me that the agent is up to something iffy to me

I think Im just gonna wait for emirates' response to my e-mail. Once they confirmed that the ticket issued by this guy was indeed economy and not business, I'm gonna print it out and show to him so that he wouldn't think that i am just over reacting.

Thats one of the reasons why I booked my flight to him, because he has special discount with emirates. I remembered he also booked my brothers' flight a year ago business class charging him 500EUR only.

If you go to the EK website and go to manage booking, you may be able to print out a copy of the electronic ticket details which will provide what you need

If he has a legitimate discount with Emirates , then the ticket would have been issued in the correct cabin. It smells v fishy to me and potentially looking at an agent trying to do things such as sell miles to upgrade bookings

that is exactly what i am going to do. last time i went there i just told him what i saw on EK website maybe he thought I misinterpret it. he said he already booked over 500+ flights to others and theres no way he made a mistake. but the thing is, i am the only one who booked business class and the rest was economy.

so that means my ticket is indeed an economy and when my flight is near he will upgrade it or something? is that what you are trying to say?

go into the manage my booking, and see whether there is a print eticket option there that you can use . If so, that is all you need since that shows categorically what you have purchased


what I am saying is that there are some dubious agents out there which sell business class tickets which are actually economy tickets where they have upgraded using miles or similar which they have purchased from someone else. This is in breach of airlines' schemes T&Cs and if you have a ticket like that you can run risk of the airline just cancelling it on you.

The nature of the information provided does make it seem possible that such practice may be intended

In the current situation it seems clear that what yoiu have is an economy ticket which is not what you paid for.

There isn't a need to make the posts harder to read by using Bold btw

Also on your eticket you can check how much he paid for the ticket against what he charged you. Make sure that matches as it does sound fishy, like he sold you an economy class ticket, charged you a little more, and will use miles to upgrade you to business class.

If this is the case then I am fine with it. So when will I know if my ticket has already been upgraded?

The price or amount is not indicated on the itinerary he gave me. Is there any other way I can check it?

Assuming you have the booking reference

go to emirates.com and go to manage existing booking

retrieve the booking information. On the webpage there may be a link to print itinery/receipt/eticket . If there is, go there and print it out.

This will either have the actual fare paid if a normal published ticket or indicate IT or BT otherwise in the fare box

Take this ticket to agent and get the money back or properly rebooked into business