The swimmers are travelling to compete in Portugal, but had to sleep overnight at the airport after the weather caused flight chaos.
Heavy rain flooding the United Arab Emirates has caused major flight disruptions at Dubai International Airport, leaving many Australians stranded at terminals for hours.
The state-run WAM news agency described this week’s rain as “a historic weather event” that surpassed “anything documented since the start of data collection in 1949″. Towle and the team of 20 swimmers flew out of Brisbane with Emirates but were unable to land in Dubai and were redirected to a local airfield. The team spent about nine hours on the tarmac before flying back to Dubai, he said, and the next “13 hours waiting in line” to secure tickets on reallocated flights.Towle said communicating with Emirates had been difficult but acknowledged staff were all “trying to do their best”.
The team secured a 9am flight to Lisbon and members were hoping to get a connection to Madeira for the competition.
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