How Trump’s war on Iran stranded a million fliers — and plunged the Gulf’s favorite playground into chaos

It was a small aft 1PM connected Friday, February 28th, and Samantha Lujano was astir to committee her formation from Dubai to Colombo, Sri Lanka, erstwhile the drone attacks began.

She had already received her boarding walk and gone done customs. Her formation was astatine the gross and her bags were loaded. She was simply waiting for the gross agents to unfastened the formation for boarding. So she opened TikTok and started scrolling.

But alternatively of relieving her boredom, the algorithm fed her anxiety. It showed her dozens of videos of explosions that purported to beryllium from astir the Persian Gulf - including a fewer successful Dubai itself. She knew amended than to judge everyt …

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