Traffic at Dubai airport remained disrupted with 237 flights cancelled the other day, a day after an Emirates plane crash-landed and shut down the Middle East’s busiest airport for several hours.
Dubai Airports authority said it cancelled 116 arriving flights and another 121 departing since the accident just after midday on Wednesday, while 44 planes were diverted to nearby Emirati airports. The airport resumed operations with reduced capacity around four hours after a Boeing 777 flying from India with 300 people on board crash-landed and caught fire.
READ MORE – Dubai airport shuts down after Emirates Airline flight crash lands
All passengers and crew were evacuated safely but an Emirati firefighter died while putting out the blaze.
“DXB (Dubai International’s code) continues to operate with one runway with higher priority for arriving flights and wide-bodied aircraft to maximise the utilisation of available capacity and ease congestion inside the terminals,” Dubai Airports said in a statement.
“The airport is expected to be in recovery mode for the next 48 hours with efforts in full swing to clear the backlogged flights,” it said.
"Dubai city Airports said a statement.It expected operations to come to traditional in 2 days.
"The airdrome is predicted to get on recovery mode for consecutive forty eight hours with efforts fully swing to clear the backlogged flights," it said.DXB is that the world´s largest air hub in terms of international passengers, and is that the base for Emirates, that serves quite 153 destinations.
Comments are closed.