Thinking about my SFO-DXB flight on EK tomorrow... I'm travelling on a regular US passport, with, among others, some Israeli stamps in it. The UAE doesn't care about Israeli stamps, so I'm fine there, but thinking about the route I'll be flying, it seems that if the flight had to divert for some reason, I could easily end up in a country that would not appreciate my previous trips to Israel very much.

I'm not really worried about it at all. First of all, the odds of diversion are really low, and even if we did divert, most likely either:

(1) The issue would be fixed without pax leaving the plane, or
(2) They would just hold us in a secure area until EK could send over a replacement plane, without clearing immigration.


Do any of you consider possible diversion locations when planning/preparing travel? I doubt it, but this is FT so someone will probably have something interesting say