Jan 2, 2023
A melancholy day - which started with me checking the airport news in Manila. Why you ask. The Emirates flight 333 was to depart at 17.40 which was to take P and the boys back home to Dubai. However, the previous evening, indeed on the first day of the year, the Flight Control Tower at Ninoy Aquino International Airport came a cropper. Power failure seemingly. So much so that flights were cancelled and even flights from elsewhere and going elsewhere were redirected if they were to breach Manila airspace- which meant a lot of flights from New Zealand and Australia headed to Japan and Korea. This news was broadcast in all the leading papers in both Dubai and Singapore- and hence we were getting messages from friends to inquire if we were stuck. Thankfully there was no cancellation message from enirates on the morning of the 2nd- but also when I checked the local news it mentioned that the problem had since been resolved. But from experience, whenever you have something like this the...