SINGAPORE: Singapore-bound passengers had been amongst 1000’s of travellers stranded at Hamad Worldwide Airport in Doha on Tuesday (Jun 24) after the momentary closure of a number of international locations’ airspace.
Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait briefly shut their airspace late on Monday after Iran’s strike on a US navy base in Qatar’s capital Doha, forcing airways to cancel or reroute a whole lot of flights and making a backlog of stranded passengers.
4 passengers travelling to Singapore instructed CNA that there was no clear indication after they would have the ability to get one other flight. They mentioned that they had not been supplied with any lodging preparations.
Ms Melodie Yip, who had been transiting on the airport, was meant to fly out of Doha on Monday evening on Qatar Airways, however her flight was cancelled.
After queuing for round eight hours to rebook one other flight that was meant to depart this afternoon, she later learnt that this flight had been cancelled as properly.
She is ready for an additional flight to depart the nation, however mentioned she doesn’t count on to get a flight on Tuesday evening.
“Once I heard the second flight was cancelled, I used to be very, very anxious as a result of I did not need to undergo that … eight-hour queue once more,” she mentioned.
Nevertheless, she mentioned that she had discovered some consolation within the different Singaporeans who had been within the queue together with her.
Ms Yip mentioned she anticipated to get a flight on Wednesday and hoped it could not be cancelled once more.
“If it is tomorrow, I am hoping that they may even give us some like lodge keep, or at the very least some type of lodging,” she mentioned.
“I believe Hamad Worldwide Airport and Qatar Airways weren’t ready for such a disaster, which is surprising for a world-class, award-winning airline and airport,” she added.
