Emirates Cancels Singapore to Melbourne Flights

[Chrystee]

It's just a waiting game at the moment until Emirates announces the date. I would think that will happen very soon. If I had to guess, I'd say that the last flight would be the end of March, to co-incide with the start of the northern Summer schedule.

On the other hand, unless you need the points for something else, there's no harm in booking your April flights if they're available -- the worst that can happen is that you'll get a full refund.

OK thank you. Will wait a week or 2 and see what happens

 

[Kiwiash]

It appears that QF has pulled this flight from redemptions as of 9th Nov...

 

[Lemon_Party]

I have 4 J seats on this in July in the Mel-sin direction which tie into sin-hel.
Was about the only route I could find with enough space for the family so this is a bit of a pain.
Hopefully Qantas manage the cancellation so that I can at least keep the sin-hel legs alive but chances of that going up in smoke are pretty high too!

 

[AIRwin]

It appears that QF has pulled this flight from redemptions as of 9th Nov...

EK is still offering this flight for redemptions

 

[am0985]

It appears that QF has pulled this flight from redemptions as of 9th Nov...

Doubt they'd cancel it with such little notice. People would be potentially still on their holidays with their flight home cancelled - if this actually happened Emirates probably would have to even put award tickets on QF flights. But I think it'll still be end of March 2025.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Doubt they'd cancel it with such little notice. People would be potentially still on their holidays with their flight home cancelled - if this actually happened Emirates probably would have to even put award tickets on QF flights. But I think it'll still be end of March 2025.

Yeah… end of March would seem plausible from a commercial standpoint. It would cover the holidays, school holidays, and return of uni students for the start of 2025. The students returning often means flights are packed to the rafters in all classes.

 

[elanshin]

I wonder how feasible it is to book a return flight doing MEL - SIN on EK departing soon and having a return as far back as possible to in the hopes of creating a one way ticket by having it cancelled later.

 

[zainman]

I wonder how feasible it is to book a return flight doing MEL - SIN on EK departing soon and having a return as far back as possible to in the hopes of creating a one way ticket by having it cancelled later.

How would the refund of that ticket work? 100% refund even after you've used the one leg?

 

[elanshin]

How would the refund of that ticket work? 100% refund even after you've used the one leg?

Id imagine there's proportions for each leg in cost.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I wonder how feasible it is to book a return flight doing MEL - SIN on EK departing soon and having a return as far back as possible to in the hopes of creating a one way ticket by having it cancelled later.

I’m not sure what this achieves?

 

[elanshin]

I’m not sure what this achieves?

Booking a one way ticket for the price of return ( one way is ~$1k return is about $750+500ish for ~$1200 total).

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Booking a one way ticket for the price of return ( one way is ~$1k return is about $750+500ish for ~$1200 total).

Oh! (i was thinking premium cabins, either paid or award!)

Wouldn’t scoot or jetstar be easier and simpler? lol.

 

[elanshin]

Oh! (i was thinking premium cabins, either paid or award!)

Wouldn’t scoot or jetstar be easier and simpler? lol.

Timing is part of it as well.

 

[am0985]

Anyone think it's strange they haven't announced an end date to this yet?

Surely if they were going to default to end of March then they would've announced this by now?

Seems odd they'd wait so long, each paid booking after the deadline means having to offer passengers alternative arrangements right? I understand this isn't the case for points bookings.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Anyone think it's strange they haven't announced an end date to this yet?

Surely if they were going to default to end of March then they would've announced this by now?

Seems odd they'd wait so long, each paid booking after the deadline means having to offer passengers alternative arrangements right? I understand this isn't the case for points bookings.

Unfortunately ‘no’.

Emirates has changed their conditions of carriage.

There are three options in the event of a schedule change or cancellation… another date, reroute, or refund.

Previously EK let the passenger choose which one they wanted.

Now it is EK - and EK exclusively - who get to choose which one they give you.

Best case they might re-route you on another airline, depending on the fare you paid.

Worst case they can simply give you a refund.

This applies even if you have used points from a partner airline to redeem the EK flight.

 

[Human]

Be that as it may, it’s still strange that they haven’t announced an end date.