Originally Posted by
lost_in_translation
OT but surely the Easter holidays are literally the busiest time of the year other than Christmas for flights between Europe and DXB, why would you choose to do maintenance then?! Surely you'd wait a few weeks until Ramadan started and numbers reduce massively? What a stupid place.
Runway closure : 16/04/2019 - 30/05/2019
Ramadan - 05/05/2019 - 04/06/2019
The closure is more or less for the whole of Ramadan.
I doubt the organisers took UK holidays (a Christian holiday at that) into account when they planned it...