Dubai airport flights delayed due to heavy rain
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DUBAI: Dubai International, one of the world’s busiest airports, cancelled, diverted and delayed flights on Saturday due to heavy rain and flooding, Dubai Airports said.
Flights are likely to be delayed throughout the day and some have been cancelled or diverted to nearby Al Maktoum airport, state-owned Dubai Airports said on Twitter.
Video footage and images posted on social media showed part of the airport’s runway area submerged under water.
Dubai airport is the base of airlines Emirates and flydubai.
Emirates said several flights to and from Dubai had been delayed. Flydubai said its flights were also delayed, while some had been diverted.
Published in Dawn, January 12th, 2020
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Jan 12, 2020 09:44am
Pakistan immediately send experts from CAA department to run the Duabi airport smoothly in this bad weather.
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Jan 12, 2020 10:52am
Sights and sounds of climate change and global warming in Dubai, U.A.E., which used to be a dry, hot and humid place with insgnificant rainfall in the past.
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Jan 12, 2020 04:03pm
Rain water (& sewer) drainage systems very poor in Middle-Eastern Gulf countries
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Jan 12, 2020 06:57pm
Do you Still have any doubts about climate change?
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Jan 13, 2020 04:26pm
@Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad, Yes. Weather patterns are changing but the biggest problem is the proper drainage system of rain water which was not considered when runways were built.
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