Well, he did actually make 3 paragraphs, just without an indentation or extra space. Par for the forums, imo.
If you can pull up your application from EK's website, just update it, which will also make it active again. If not, well, you can guess what you need to do.
I applied just prior to the financial crash. Got shortlisted and then crickets. Once they started hiring again, I made an update to my flight times, and was then given an interview offer.