It has been a long week of sleepless nights forSorrel Ashton, an independenttravel adviserwho has been working around the clock to help her clients stuck inDubaiget home to the UK. "There has been a lot of stress and worry," she toldthe Express. "A lot of clients were [in Dubai] on business, so they were separated from their families. There has been a lot of 'please can youget me home to my family.'"

Ms Ashton said she has been "in crisis mode" since Saturday, when several clients sent her pictures of missiles being intercepted and landing in The Palm (Palm Jumeirah). She was able to get eight clients on a flight on Monday (March 2), but this was quickly cancelled, which has been the case for hundreds of thousands ofpassengers who remain strandedthanks to the closure of key air hubs amid conflict between the US,Israeland Iran. "I've pretty much been finding alternative flights for them constantly, but they've been moved and changed."

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She managed to get a group of four on a flight fromMuscat, Oman, in the early hours of Tuesday morning (March 3), which departed at 2.40am.

"I've also been looking at air charters for a group. People have been desperate to get out."

However, it was one case in particular that has stuck with Ms Ashton: a couple who weren't originally her clients but asked for help after hearing she was helping people get out of theUAE.

"They were desperate to get out of the country. He is awar veteran, and they had shrapnel on their balcony," Ms Ashton said. "He had a prosthetic leg that broke over the course of the week. So I sent them a link to a prosthetics clinic to try and help get it fixed, because he was just literally keeping it together with duct tape.

"His other half was having panic attacks and I think being on The Palm wasn't helping, so we moved them to another hotel. That one's been really difficult."

"They came to me and asked if there was anything I could do. I found them a flight that was due to leave on March 9, but I was then able to get them on a waitlist so they were then potentially leaving on the 3rd. That got cancelled, but they've just taken off."

Source: Daily Express :: World Feed