{"id":335054,"date":"2026-03-08T08:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/335054\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T08:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:03:07","slug":"govt-chartered-flight-arrives-in-dublin-from-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/335054\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt-chartered flight arrives in Dublin from Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first Government chartered flight to bring people stranded in the Middle East home to Ireland arrived at Dublin Airport from Oman just before 5am.<\/p>\n

The aircraft touched down on Irish soil with 194 passengers on board – of which 180 were Irish citizens.<\/p>\n

The aircraft was delayed on the runway in Cairo in Egypt during a stopover for a number of hours due to technical issues.<\/p>\n

It was also delayed in Oman over what was described as a challenging and volatile situation on the ground there.<\/p>\n

Passengers were accommodated at hotels and the Department of Foreign Affairs said it would pay for those overnight stays.<\/p>\n

The flight priortised bringing home older people, children and people with medical issues amid escalating hostilities between Iran, Israel and the United States.<\/p>\n

There were emotional scenes as people from the flight were reunited with family and friends in the arrivals area of Terminal 1 in Dublin Airport.<\/p>\n

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\nThe aircraft touched down on Irish soil with 194 passengers on board<\/p>\n

Passengers who travelled on the plane paid \u20ac800 for the cost of the flight.<\/p>\n

Children under the age of 16 travelled for free.<\/p>\n

Around 18,000 Irish citizens across the Gulf region have registered with the Department of Foreign Affairs since last weekend.<\/p>\n

The department said an intensive consular support operation is under way for those across the region who have been impacted by the conflict.<\/p>\n

This week, five commercial Emirates flights have taken hundreds of Irish citizens from Dubai to Dublin.<\/p>\n

The daa says flights to and from the Middle East continue to be disrupted due to airspace restrictions.<\/p>\n

Passengers are advised to check with their airlines for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first Government chartered flight to bring people stranded in the Middle East home to Ireland arrived at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-335054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}