I am only gold (no LTG), but have had similar issues where they palm you off.I was trying to change a flight to an earlier flight, and there was apparently some issue with the return leg being a different class of ticket to my outgoing leg, and differing class on the flight I wanted to change to....

Thanks for the confirmation.I thought so - but was holding out for some way to earn status without having to make it a multi-hop journey

I am wondering if it is possible to get status points if I fly a JL codeshare on an EK plane. Flying Emirates doesn't earn status points, but flying JAL does.I'm flying Tokyo to Dubai, and if my ticket is a JAL codeshare on emirates metal, would I be able to earn QFF status points?