Dubai International Airport (DXB) began the working week under pressure, with dozens of arrivals running behind schedule after widespread disruption on Sunday. Flydubai services from Almaty and Tashkent landed nearly an hour late on Monday morning, while an Emirates flight from London-Heathrow was rescheduled from 06:40 to 08:30. Airport authorities have not attributed the delays to a single cause, but aviation analysts point to a combination of knock-on effects from weather-related diversions in Central Asia, ongoing air-traffic restrictions across parts of Russia and Ukraine, and capacity constraints at DXB as passenger volumes approach pre-pandemic peaks. More than 170 flights into Dubai and Abu Dhabi were delayed on Sunday, many for over two hours. For corporates, the uneven recovery is a reminder to build extra slack into itineraries and to monitor routings that depend on Russian overflight corridors. Logistics managers report that same-day connections onto regional hubs such as Muscat, Dammam and Kuwait City are the most vulnerable because they rely on tight turn-arounds at DXB’s Terminal 2. Travel-management companies are advising clients to check flight status before leaving for the airport and to brief travelling employees on alternative ground-transport options—including Etihad Rail’s soon-to-launch inter-emirate service—as contingency. With UAE carriers now close to full capacity after cutting frequencies during the Iran war, any fresh disruption could ripple through the network for days.
Source: The National
