A summer horribilis for British Holidaymakers

It's been an awful summer for Brits jumping on flights both short and long haul. There has been plenty of bankruptcies, (probably EXCEL wins the award for the most horrible in terms of stranding holiday makers); and there have been plenty of safety incidents (e.g. cabin depressurisation on Ryan Air)
This incident today probably sums up the summer as a whole (Air Europa were rumoured to be one of those "local spanish airlines" with alledged financial problems as well) -

Gone 2 Sharjah

Well jumped on an Emirates flight from Manchester on Tuesday lunchtime to start a new job in Sharjah. It was a good job it was half empty as the service was pretty lousy. It seemed that one of the senior staff members was running a staff training session in the kitchen - the airline has obviously expanded so quickly, they're struggling to keep up on the staff training front.
Dubai airport was its usual chaos. The new Emirates terminal is meant to open on Monday, so perhaps some of the stress will come out of the existing terminal. It seemed a miracle that any of got our bags - they were running 3 planes's baggage per carousel, which given each plane was 777/340 size - baggage continually stacking up on the belt making it difficult to retrieve it , even for fairly tall people like me.

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