Corporate reward trip turns into long wait for return: Pune tourists among 375-member group stuck in Dubai

Key Highlights

• While earlier batches on February 19 and 22 returned safely, this third group was caught in the crossfire when hostilities intensified on February 28, leading to the immediate closure of Emirati airspace.
• “Currently, everything is fine here.
• We were quite startled when a series of missiles flew over our hotel two days ago.
• We are hopeful that there will be no further attacks on Dubai,” Narendra Bansode, a Congress leader from Pimpri-Chinchwad, part of the contingent in Dubai, told The Indian Express over the phone.
• ”We are all part of the reward recognition and sightseeing party…The tour is for qualified business partners, many of whom have come with their families from Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Jalgaon, Nagpur and other parts of the country,” said Bansode.