Travelers Trapped in Dubai See No Easy Escape From Glitzy Island

The Burj Khalifa skyscraper on the city skyline in DubaiPhotographer: Walaa Alshaer/Bloomberg

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It was supposed to be a fancy corporate retreat, a reward for colleagues and their families to spend a few sun-kissed days in Dubai away from the bleak winter back home in Germany and Poland.

But the week-long getaway for Filip Sobiecki, who works at an AI startup in Poland, and his entourage of 18 turned into a desperate ordeal to get back to Warsaw and Munich after most of the airspace in the region closed down as Iran fired off a barrage drones and missiles.

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