A special flight with 155 Danes on board landed at Copenhagen Airport on Monday night.
This is reported by DR.
The flight took off from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday and was planned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Danes who wanted to leave the Middle East.
On Saturday, February 28, Israel and the United States launched a large-scale attack against Iran. This and Iran's response have closed the airspace at several airports in the Middle East and left several people stranded.
The tickets cost 10,500 kroner, and the flight was sold out. The flight made a stopover in Egypt.
The special plane was flown by the Danish airline DAT, which has previously participated in complex evacuation missions, writes DR.
Jesper Rungholm, CEO of DAT, told DR on Sunday afternoon that the airline has previously evacuated people from Afghanistan.
- When such an inquiry comes in, it is quite natural that we jump in and see if it can be done. If it can, we do it, but always with an eye on safety. That is what is crucial, he said.
Denmark's Foreign Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, told DR on Friday that 800 Danes had signed up to come home on the special plane. The rest will have to find another way home, he said.
But the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will follow up with a new plane, he said.
- It is first come, first served. That is why we are also following up and asking whether there will still be interest from the others, he said.
A plane from the Middle East also landed in Norway on Monday night. 127 people, 44 of whom were children, landed at 00:16 at Oslo Airport on a special flight from Oman's capital, Muscat.
This is stated by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release.
Here, Norwegian was responsible for the flight. The plane had room for 180 passengers. A ticket cost 12,500 Norwegian kroner - 8,400 Danish kroner.
Already on Sunday morning, a plane landed in another Nordic country, namely Sweden. It also came from Dubai, writes Swedish SVT.
The special flight was deployed by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and had 176 passengers on board. Among the passengers were also some Finns.
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