Virgin Atlantic to suspend Dubai operations after 'flight to nowhere'
Source: msn/The Independent
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Passengers on board a Virgin Atlantic flight from London Heathrow to Dubai finally returned to the UK after a 16-hour “flight to nowhere”.
Thousands of people have been left stranded at airports across the Middle East in the past week, after Iranian strikes targeted the Gulf states in response to a joint Israel-US bombing campaign.
Flights were briefly suspended on Saturday morning and passengers were taken into tunnels at Dubai airport, which is normally the busiest global hub in the world, following fresh drone strikes in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) city.
Flight VS400 had taken off from Heathrow at 10.22pm on Friday night for the seven-hour flight to Dubai. But after six hours in the air, while the Airbus A350 was flying over eastern Saudi Arabia, airspace was closed due to the latest attack.
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