Anyone else in Dubai on holiday? AIBU to be panicking with all the flights cancelled?

[tiantian1005]

Not sure when we can go home..anyone has managed to for example drive to nearby countries and fly from there?

Reported in Western media too.

We live very near a RAF base too. There is usually a pattern to their activity. Very quiet the last few days after a burst of activity. There is a distinct change in sound when the planes have been 'scrambled' to somewhere. A few times over the 10 years we have lived here there have been sonic booms..I understand what a pp said about looking at the planes and hearing them and imaging how it must feel to live in an area where there is conflict.

Exactly. Its a unique kind of evil that allows you to gun down tens of thousands of YOUR OWN civilians for protesting.

Do you have links? I can’t see that it is from a search

Blimey thats along time, but suppose they need it to make sure everything settles down

Here's a source which says something slightly different.https://www.cntravellerme.com/story/what-travellers-stranded-in-the-uae-right-now-need-to-know
Anyway I am only sharing in case it helps the stranded. I am not a propagandist for Dubai.

I honestly think that 11th March is just a best guess for things like planning/rostering purposes by the airline.

Emirates/Qatar/Eiihad (the airlines) and other carriers will be hemorrhaging cash right now, they aren't going to commit at this stage to not restarting before the 11th if they can safely get thing moving before hand....

It's very much a wait and see.

I agree with this as an assessment.

They will not want to restart operations before they think it's viable. It's a fairly reasonable and realistic date at this stage based on information there is.

Anything sooner would be viewed as reckless. Anything later would be viewed as frightening.

Emirates have only cancelled flights until tomorrow - they’ve just done an update.

Wishing everyone affected lots of strength, and hope this finishes soon with a free Iran as the end result. But in the meanwhile, take care of yourselves.

This will end soon, and you will be ok.

India Today is going all out on coverage online. Does anyone know, is it reliable? I always thought it was a reliable news source and they do have a lot of citizens in Dubai as well. And I guess the volatile situation with Pakistan is always ongoing.

Yes, absolutely this. A lot of it is being downplayed, there is a ban on posting videos and photos, and it is a crime to post if it hasn’t come from official sources, which is a good and bad thing. A FB page with up to date realtime info from residents are now having to delete posts and not allowing comments on other posts.

Supermarket shelves are practically empty, don’t know how they will replenish.

Yes, I’m sure all the gays in Israel (even though they can’t get legally married lol) are very happy and all the women in America are very safe and “free” (unless they get shot in the street).

I have lived in “Islamist” regimes and in the west. The difference is always that white/euro lives are considered more valuable than brown people or the “savage” Middle Easterns.

Israel is committing war crimes as we speak and just because Iran was run by a dictator, doesn’t mean Israel’s own evil tyrant or America’s pdfile president is any better.

The fuckin foreign office for a delayed flight?? Yes I know what is going on out ther but get a fucking grip ( not you OP).

FCDO are asking UK citizens to get in contact so they can be registered…

The same way Iraq and Afghanistan were freed by America? Two things can be true at once. Iran needs freedom but America and Israel have their own ‘oily’ agenda and peace has never been their priority.

Such a coincidence that whenever America talks about the freedom of women in the Middle East, that country is the next one to be bombed 🤷🏻‍♀️

DD has registered and got a grab bag ready. She's ok just now but dreading tonight she says

Don’t forget the regime change in Libya supported by the US and UK, too. Libya was a well functioning country before that, and was also the barrier which prevented the mass migration from Sub Saharan Africa that we have now.

Another region destabilised by Western meddling and arrogance, and as is the case with Afghanistan, I very much doubt that life for Iranians will improve very much, although I fervently hope I’m wrong.

I stand in solidarity with the Iranians in the same way I stood for Congo, Palestine, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon… the list is almost endless and the common denominator is always western colonial interferences and arrogance.

Israel’s partnership with America will end in despair for the whole world. That much, unfortunately, I have no doubt about. Their arrogance and greed has no limit and it will always be innocent people in the crossfire.

Ok, I ranted. The poster was implying that the FO would solve Op's problem. Registering is A-OK ...

Shahed Drones are NOT small
they carry a 50kg bomb
have a 3m wingspan and are 2.5m long

they are equivalent to a V1 rocket from WW2

Sorry why do you think your post is helpful to OP's plight? The strikes started on Saturday so two days AFTER your DH flew back from Dubai.

Warhead on a V1 was 850 kg , so a bit of difference.

Why?

That pp really didn't express herself very well with that post. What a subsequent post told us is that she really meant e.g. "Bloody hell, it's scary how quickly things can turn bad in a place; DH was there only last week, he flew back Thursday. Hope everyone is okay and gets out asap."

Maybe then people wouldn't have been so quick to jump down her throat. But as it stands, her OP did make me, as well as others, think, "Well, that's helpful..." 🤷‍♀️