An Emirates flight from Edinburgh to Dubai International Airport will be forced to make an unscheduled stopover in Manchester on Sunday night because of a jet fuel crisis that has impacted multiple flights at Edinburgh Airport (EDI) throughout the afternoon and evening.
Emirates flight EK-24, which is set to depart Edinburgh at 10:00 pm on May 31, will be in the air for less than an hour before it touches down in Manchester, so that additional fuel can be loaded on the Airbus A350-900 twinjet aircraft for its flight to Dubai.
And Emirates isn’t the only airline to have been affected, with multiple flights delayed on Sunday evening, and other airlines arranging for planes to make unscheduled stopovers to be refueled.
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