Heavy rains in the Gulf, hundreds of passengers stranded in Nepal

Chiranjeevi Dhital from Pokhara, Azad Ansari from Sunsari and other passengers were supposed to reach Dubai by Fjet-574 flight at 1 pm on Tuesday. However, out of the three Dubai-Kathmandu-Dubai flights held by Fly Dubai on Tuesday, two flights did not take place. "It was said that the flight was canceled due to the weather," said Dhital from Kaski Manidanda, who came on a short home leave. At 10 pm, he reached the check-in counter to get his boarding pass. However, the staff of Fly Dubai returned that there will be no flight . According to the terminal office at the airport, there were around 300 passengers who were going to Dubai and third countries on the two flights of Fly Dubai.

"It became difficult to manage the passengers at night when there were no flights," said an employee of the airport who was involved in the management of passengers in the middle of the night.

'Some went to sleep in a hotel . Some went home. Some of them went to their relative's camp," Dhital said, "They were lying under the canopy of the airport for 25 hours with a bag pillow. "Especially, I had little expenses." Friends told me to go to the hotel. But I was carrying noodles and bhujia in my bag . After eating that, I spent the night here. Due to the heavy rain there, one of Fly Dubai's planes was also grounded at Tribhuvan International Airport on Tuesday night.

That ship left on Wednesday afternoon . However, only passengers going to Dubai went there . If the metal fat ship flies He was staying at the airport to see if he would be found. After the flight took off on Wednesday, he again entered the check-in counter. But, he could not get on that flight .

According to an employee of Fly Dubai's office in Kathmandu, only those who were 'Dubai-residents' were given priority on that ship . "Our plane, which was stopped last night after the effects of water in Dubai gradually decreased, took off today (Wednesday) at 4:30 p.m.," he said to Kantipur, stating that his name could not be disclosed according to office rules, "passengers going to third countries were not given priority on that plane."

because the flights out of Dubai are not yet regular . Now transit passengers are not accommodated as passengers will be stranded there again . Fly Dubai, which operates four daily flights from Kathmandu to Dubai, has informed the terminal office at the airport that it will operate two out of four flights on Thursday. He has also informed the passengers via email and SMS through notification and asked them to contact the travel agencies where the tickets were purchased. Apart from the flight to Dubai on Wednesday and Thursday at the airport, two flights of Air Arabia to Sharjah, another city in the UAE, have also been cancelled, according to the terminal office.

Similarly, the schedules of Nepal Airlines Corporation, Himalaya Airlines have also been affected. Similarly, apart from the direct flight, dozens of passengers passing through India were also waiting for the flight to Dubai in the garden of Kathmandu airport.