Day 0.

Outside Terminal 1 at Dubai Airport on a Wednesday afternoon, ready to start our trip to Hong Kong.


In the Marhaba lounge airside grabbing some dinner.


Qatar Airways had one of their regular sales back in March and we had booked cheap $400 fares from Dubai to Hong Kong via Doha. With the Qatar diplomatic crisis however meant we would have to find an alternative way of getting to Hong Kong.

We elected to get a refund and book on Jet Airways who had flights via Mumbai for $440 each. I had never flown on Jet before but the flight timings were good and figured as they are part owned by Etihad they couldn't be too bad.


The Jet Airways 737 for our flight to Mumbai. We were originally flying via Delhi, but 3 weeks out Jet had rebooked us on a later flight to Delhi, arriving 3 hours after our connecting flight to Hong Kong! Luckily after a quick call though it was all sorted.


Looking down on rush hour Dubai traffic on Sheikh Zayed Road just after take-off.


Although there was no seatback IFE, there was TV and movies accessible via an iOS/Android app, distributed over the in-plane wi-fi.