Dubai Airports Corporation revealed that work is underway to complete the procedures of the remaining 91 passengers and passengers who were forced to stay at the Dubai International Airport, due to the suspension of most flights for passengers, as of midnight on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, in the framework of intensive preventive and precautionary measures. Taken by the state to reduce the spread of the Corona virus (Covid-19).
Hosting passengers
A statement issued yesterday stated that it was decided to host all the remaining 91 passengers at the airport of various nationalities in Dubai airport hotels, with the application of the necessary quarantine measures, to complete their procedures at the earliest opportunity, whether to enable them to return again to their home countries, or to complete a procedure The necessary medical examinations, to enable them to enter the country, according to the criteria and requirements set by the competent authorities.
The total of those affected by the decision to suspend flights was about 600 passengers, either because of the reduction of their flights outside Dubai International Airport, or because they were seeking to enter the Emirates after placing restrictions on entry to the country, but the efforts did not stop, but were intensified to find alternatives to restore Passengers stranded at the airport to their home countries, while utmost care was provided to all.
Dubai Airports made every possible effort during the last period, and since the decision to suspend flights, to provide all possible support to stranded travelers, as rooms were provided for accommodation in Dubai International Airport hotels, as well as providing meals, while meeting their various basic requirements In order to help them during this period.
Exceptional circumstances
"The conditions we are going through and the world around us are exceptional and unprecedented, and our primary focus is to ensure that stranded passengers receive the necessary levels of care and attention," said Dubai Airports Corporation CEO Paul Griffiths. He added: "We work closely with airlines and agencies to evacuate passengers through health checks and passport procedures, to make arrangements for them to be quarantined, or to help them organize their trips, to return passengers to their home country or future destinations." Griffiths explained that there are daily flights that take off From Dubai International Airport, and from «Dubai World Central» to return passengers to their countries, and transfer them to the first stop of their flights, or the destination they were heading to, at the time the airport service staff worked around the clock to provide all forms of assistance to travelers.