I registered, paid the £350, then never heard back, says Brit stuck in Muscatpublished at 07:40 GMT
Poppy Cleary is trying to get back to the UK after her flight from Singapore was diverted to Muscat
As we’ve been reporting, the first UK government-arranged repatriation flight to bring Britons home from the Middle East has been delayed.
Poppy Cleary, 27, is one of those stranded in Muscat – Oman’s capital, where the flight was meant to depart from.
“I registered, I paid the £350 and then I never heard back,” she tells BBC’s Your Voice.
She says the British Embassy in Oman told her the first flight was not for people who had been diverted to Muscat, but instead for people who had come to Oman from “unsafe countries” including the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar.
“Clearly I didn’t get on the flight – it’s a bit frustrating that they couldn’t even let me know that I hadn’t made the cut.”
Meanwhile, there were emotional scenes at Edinburgh Airport last night as some 300 passengers landed on an Emirates flight from Dubai.
Andrew Crow and Jean Weir, from Glasgow, had checked out of the Fairmont The Palm hotel in Dubai just hours before an explosion there on Saturday.
“The flight was a long one on the way back, I can assure you, but we are relieved to be home,” Andrew says.
