We received all our expenses back months ago. We had no expenses at the hotel since HAL covered everything the one night we were there. United and Delta gave us everything back but Emirates did not so HAL did. HAL paid for our flight home. I sent a copy of the ticket we could not use and the note from the credit card saying that they could not refund the expense since the ticket was nonrefundable.
We had quite an adventure. I don't twitter.