Irate Emirates Customer

I booked a flight on Emirates that I can no longer take. When I booked the flight I lived in Taiwan and used my Taiwan bank account, I'm now back in South Africa and the bank account is closed, I have NO access to that account any longer. I asked Emirates to please pay the money into my new South African Bank account and they refuse to do this, they won't even give me the miles. I understand they have a policy that can only credit the account that made the purchase BUT I no longer have access to that account, and I am not in Taiwan to ask the bank to reopen the account. So now I am just supposed to lose that money????????? This is ridiculous!!!

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