Drone strike on a fuel tank at/near DXB as reported by al jazeera. Fire has been blazing there for a while.
It's not that there's a lack of crude oil. There's a more than enough being produced. Its that the ME countries can't get it out to a significant portion of their customers and countries. The ME countries themselves won't run out of crude for centuries to come if its just for their own consumption.
www.abc.net.au
Would lack of fuel play a part? Listened to this this morning (no idea of the authenticity though, it's FB!!). 570K views · 6.7K reactions | What it sounded like to be airborne over QATAR when the Iran attacks started. | fly8MA.com
If this war persists into April, many may be compelled to seek alternative employment. I remember reading or hearing that the Gulf nations are closely monitoring the situation and plan to reassess by March 31st. If there's no clear indication of an end, they are likely to implement some form of contingency plan for their economies, though the details will remain unclear until closer to that date.
As an up date I took the punt and contacted my TI company and it was a no go. As the conversation progressed I could not help but to have a felling of the call centre agent had been given a script directing me to page 5X and general exclusions 'citing war'. I was expecting this would be the case but gave it ago, will I bother with EU261, most likely not as I suspect the result will be the same.
If Emirates can pay a 20 plus week bonus to every staff member in recent years then I'm sure they are paying base wages at the bare minimum, especially given they'd hate to lose staff if this blows over.
I don't think we would know unless anyone knows someone working in one of the airlines. And even then they may have a gag order right now as well. UAE for example has a very serious gag order out for anyone filming anything to do with the missile and drones. Lots of people have been arrested and forced to delete their footages - which is why we don't see very much about the missiles and drones in UAE.
So an update on my post. I received a message a few days ago saying we had been moved to EK407 and we could fly as long as we had an onward booking, which we did. I was bullish/optimistic that we could fly from a safety perspective with the only real concern that we could get stuck in Dubai and not make the wedding. After todays temporary closure of DXB we have changed tact and have cancelled our EK flights and reverted to our back up MCY SYD KUL HKG with MH and then HKG IST ATH with TK and then ATH LCA with Aegean. Lots of flying but fortunate to be in J and we get to try new airlines and lounges
Once your flight was cancelled, that’s when EU261 kicks in. You have to contact thr airline and they will re-route you… at the earliest opportunity (can be any airline) and in the same class of travel. They also cover hotels and meals while you wait.
Is there a penalty or fine for airlines not providing re-routing in accordance with 261? Wondering if there's a point at which it becomes cheaper to to just cop the fine/penalty than re-route.
