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Emirates award availability.

The upgrade award (with miles) availability from economy to business class for flights from LAX to DXB seems to be very scarce. I was told by Emirates agent that the entire week around the date I am traveling in september has zero upgrade availability for LAX-DXB route. But the agents hinted that upgradable seats might open up later.

Should I wait for a few months to see if upgradable seat opens up, or should I buy a business class ticket now in case the fare goes up later?

any experience getting upgrade from economy to business using skyward miles in LAX-DXB route?

Upgrade availability opens up T-6 weeks all the way to T-48 hours from recent experience

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Originally Posted by edy4eva (Post 22789794)

Upgrade availability opens up T-6 weeks all the way to T-48 hours from recent experience

So you're saying I should wait until first week of august to check for availability if I'm traveling in mid-September (the week of 9/15).... ???

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Originally Posted by uclacolumbiaunc (Post 22789821)

So you're saying I should wait until first week of august to check for availability if I'm traveling in mid-September (the week of 9/15).... ???

That's weird because I can see many business class award seats via alaska.

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Originally Posted by WanderlustB (Post 22790078)

That's weird because I can see many business class award seats via alaska.

I am thinking about buying an economy class seat and using skyward miles to upgrade to business.

I don't think I have enough miles to redeem a business seat straight for the LAX-DXB route.

I have inquired a few times, and I've been told each time by the Emirates telephone agents that there is no upgradeable seats available using skyward miles.

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Originally Posted by WanderlustB (Post 22790078)

That's weird because I can see many business class award seats via alaska.

EK may be making a different award inventory available to its partner airlines. Its a known fact that Alaska seems to have a much better inventory available on EK than what is available to Skywards....

Upgrades come from "saver" award inventory AFAIK. There are "flex" award seats around your travel dates but these can't be used for upgrades. So you can book a flex award seat now, but not an upgrade. But there are saver awards for almost every day from the 20th onwards. You can see all this on emirates.com.

Unfortunately, Emirates.com does not let me take a peak at award availability as I don't have enough miles yet.

How many miles do I need for saver awards on business class?

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Originally Posted by uclacolumbiaunc (Post 22790821)

Unfortunately, Emirates.com does not let me take a peak at award availability as I don't have enough miles yet.

How many miles do I need for saver awards on business class?

Use the mileage calculator to calculate miles required.
http://www.emirates.com/account/engl...alculator.aspx
Its 52,500 miles to upgrade a flex fare and 67,500 to upgrade a saver fare (one way).

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Originally Posted by uclacolumbiaunc (Post 22790821)

Unfortunately, Emirates.com does not let me take a peak at award availability as I don't have enough miles yet.

Emirates.com lets you check availability of any reward seats as long as you have a Skywards membership number and can log in.

Emirates DXB- LAX

Hi,

Does anyone know the traffic usually on this flight, I'm looking to see if the A380 is normally at full capacity and whether points upgrades are common for J seats?

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Originally Posted by ft101 (Post 22790962)

Emirates.com lets you check availability of any reward seats as long as you have a Skywards membership number and can log in.

Where can I check Upgrade availability on emirates.com? Am I too stupid to find it or can I just check for Award flights?

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Originally Posted by uclacolumbiaunc (Post 22789241)

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Originally Posted by uclacolumbiaunc (Post 22789821)

I'm traveling in mid-September (the week of 9/15).... ???

There are C Award/Upgrade Seats available on the 21st:

[KVS Availability Tool 7.3.6/Diamond - Awards/OneWorld/AU-QFA-MLT]

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LAX  Los Angeles Intl CA US [KLAX]

DXB  Dubai Metro / Dubai Intl AE = DXB DWC [OMDB]

SUN  21 Sep 2014 | 1 Seat



Carrier    Flight  From  Depart    To    Arrive         St  Availability

---------  ------  ----  --------  ----  --------  ---  --  -------------

EK         216     LAX   16:45     DXB   19:35 +1       0   FS-  CS+  YS+

AB         7431    LAX   17:55     DUS   13:40 +1       0   FS-  CS-  YS+

 -> EK     56      DUS   15:25 +1  DXB   23:55 +1       0   FS+  CS+  YS+

AA         74      LAX   22:50     IAD   06:45 +1       0   FS+  CS-  YS-

 -> EK     232     IAD   10:55 +1  DXB   08:00 +2       0   FS+  CS-  YS-

AA         30      LAX   23:30     JFK   08:00 +1       0   FS+  CS-  YS-

 -> EK     204     JFK   11:20 +1  DXB   07:50 +2       0   FS+  CS-  YS-

QF         94      LAX   23:30     MEL   08:20 +2       0   FS-  CS-  YS+

 -> QF     9       MEL   15:15 +2  DXB   23:25 +2       0   FS-  CS-  YS+

QF         12      LAX   22:05     SYD   06:10 +2       0   FS-  CS-  YS+

 -> QF     1       SYD   15:50 +2  DXB   00:35 +3       0   FS-  CS-  YS+

QF         108     LAX   23:50     SYD   07:35 +2       0   FS-  CS-  YS+

 -> QF     1       SYD   15:50 +2  DXB   00:35 +3       0   FS-  CS-  YS+

What is the Fare classes for F upgrade? F saver? F Flex? I assume the first 2 are Z and the Flex is something else?

Thanks

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Originally Posted by mdb (Post 22793530)

What is the Fare classes for F upgrade? F saver? F Flex? I assume the first 2 are Z and the Flex is something else?

Please see:
http://Help.KVSTool.com/#EK
http://Help.KVSTool.com/#AwardTypes