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Dubai /Â WAM
The Dubai Airports confirmed that a total of 116 arriving and 121 departing flights were cancelled and a total of 44 inbound flights were diverted to neighbouring airports following the incident involving Emirates Airline flight EK 521 at Dubai International yesterday.
The disruption of normal operations on Wednesday affected a total of 19,000 passengers before DXB airport resumed operations under restricted capacity at 6.30pm, the Dubai Airports said in a flight status update.
“DXB continues to operate with one runway with higher priority for arriving flights
and wide-bodied aircraft to
maximise the utilisation of available capacity and
ease congestion inside the
terminals.
The airport is expected to be on recovery mode for the next 48 hours with efforts in full swing to clear backlogged flights,” it concluded.