Travelling to India - First Try

We had booked our travel to Gujarat for the 15.April. In the morning we heard on radio and saw on TV the reports about the volcano in Iceland which brought ash into the atmosphere - and we saw that flights were cancelled. Also our flight was cancelled, but when calling the airline, they told us that they would notify us later about what was going to happen. We took a chance and travelled to the airport anyway.

The airport was relatively empty. It appeared that many people had already stayed at home. Emirates distributed a flyer in which the situation was explained. We called, and were able to rebook for Tuesday, 20.April.

Travel with Emirates Airways

We had chosen to fly with Emirates Airways, as they had a very reasonable price. They fly from Manchester to Dubai, then go on to Ahmedabad. Nice food is being served.

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We have 4 hours in Dubai Airport, from midnight until 4 am. It is quite busy there, obviously many flights arrive around that time. All stores are open, so one can get a last supply of power adaptors, memory cards, and batteries.