y is 0 on all man Dxb flights that day...

I am sure they do oversell in Y. But Y0 only means they don’t sell any more Y tickets. For all we know they might (for instance) be 10 seats oversold already.

Hi ​​​​​​​Claresto and welcome to the EK Forum. You will find lots of useful advice on here so please stick around, have a read and join in with the threads and discussions.

Looking at those numbers, the flights in Y seem fairly busy although EK are still willing to sell some seats. I’m assuming it is two of you travelling (if not more) and possibly with no status so given those numbers and the importance of sitting together I would definitely consider paying for seats together. What does the seat map look like at the moment. This should be a good indicator although a lot of pax still wait till check in opens online before selecting seats but to have some sort of guarantee it would entirely be up to you.

Once again, welcome on board and hopefully you’ll stick around.

Safe & Happy Travels

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p.s. to my previous reply. Looking at seat map for EK27, a lot of pax have selected aisle/aisle seats with a lot of centre only seats available although there are pairs or more at the rear so I wouldn’t hesitate in ponying up on that flight as it currently stands.

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Noticed the two class myself. The EK Source doesn’t seem to want to play today to check and see how often it has been happening.

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That seat map was for the flight from DXB-GLA which will possibly suffer more from connecting pax hence the advice to pay for seats. When I looked at the seat map for your flight from SIN there were still quite a lot of open seats but didn’t realise that the flight came from MEL first.

Have you paid for seats on both legs? Due to some technical issues with FT at present, I’ll post a screenshot of the current seatmap for your SIN-DXB flight in a separate post. Note that I haven’t managed to get the first few rows in the front Y cabin in the screenshot but these are either already selected or blocked by EK.

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EK 3720DXB
25/12/17 9:30BKK
25/12/17 18:40388
Daily
77% / 15mJ3 C3 I0 O0 P0 Y0 E0 R0 W0 M0 B0 U0K0 H0 Q0 L0 T0 V0 X0

Looks pretty full to me, but in J as well, so they won’t look for ‘cheap’ upgrades
Anecdotally, upgrade emails are only sent if P>0 and that is certainly not the case!

EK 10 abreast Y seats are not that bad. I’m 6ft 3in, (and not skinny). The caveat with bulkhead and exit seats are usually that these seats are not as wide due to fixed armrests. I did not find any issue with a bulkhead seat that I sat in so would assume that a standard seat with moveable armrests are not going to be as tight. As ft101 says, the space to fit those 10 seats in comes mostly from aisle space. Don’t fret too much about it. Thousands upon thousands of travellers fly on EK 77Ws daily in Y and a lot of them return for another go. Our very own ​​​​​​​Skywardhunter flies EK mostly on 77Ws in Y and chooses to do so on a regular basis despite having many other choices.

You are are going to have excellent IFE to while away the hours and crews down the back are good at getting you refills of drinks to keep you hydrated. Don’t fret about it.

Safe & Happy Travels

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EK 4350BNE
12/22/17 8:45 PMDXB
12/23/17 5:20 AM388
Daily
90% / 21mF4 A4 J7 C7 I7 O7 P1 Y9 E9 R9 W9 M9B9 U0 K0 H0 Q0 L0 T0 V0 X0


EK 6240DXB
12/23/17 6:55 AMLHE
12/23/17 10:45 AM77W
M,W,F,Sa
63% / 38mJ5 C0 I0 O0 P0 Y0 E0 R0 W0 M0 B0 U0K0 H0 Q0 L0 T0 V0 X0

EK435 doesn’t look as good as 624.

many thanks. You were right- no upgrade for EK 435. To my shock found out that they have scrapped the priority security departure cards for gold members- only for first/business pax from now on. Wonder what's next..

It would help enormously if you include the route and not just the flight number. EF asks for the route and will then give you the availability on all flights for that day. One can filter on airline for a route but not just for a flight number.

Anyway, I found the routing so here you go:

EK 4060DXB
29/12/17 10:05MEL
30/12/17 6:30388
Daily
66% / 21mF4 A4 J7 C7 I7 O7 P7 Y9 E9 R9 W9 M9B9 U9 K9 H0 Q9 L9 T9 V0 X0

Does not appear to be full / overbooked in Y (or any other cabin for that matter) at least at this stage.