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Agent in Dubai: 'I wouldn't want to be stuck anywhere else'

Dubai
Libby Tucker
6 March 2026

Libby Tucker, consultant with Aspire Travel in Cottenham, tells TTG her family has endured four cancellations already in their mission to return home

Libby Tucker
© Libby Tucker Aspire Travel

Libby, partner Charlie and daughter Ruby were celebrating a milestone birthday before the crisis erupted

I’m ready to come home now, my family are worried sick. We’re really hoping to make it out of here on Sunday, but we’ve had four flights cancelled already. We’ve said, just get us to any UK airport. The flight situation is frustrating but we know there are thousands of Brits trying to get home from the region. 

We went to the Maldives first for my partner’s 30th and then his family met us here in Dubai. We’ve been away nearly three weeks now. My husband is a self-employed scaffolder so he’s had to rearrange work and isn’t getting paid.