Whilst it is annoying, it isn’t an attempt to not pay out by claiming it was due to weather. More than one flight diverted.
Diverting is a PITA sometimes and especially out there. AAN only has 8 parking stands and rapidly fills. DXB can also impose some really quite horrendous holding times with EATs (expected approach times) vastly in exceedance of any reasonable amount of fuel carried for the conditions forecast. The forecast itself from DXB never mentions fog and given the airport operators comments from their met office only indicate a 10% chance the it’s no wonder when it actually did happen, it caught out some by nothing more than sheer bad luck on timing.
Hopefully you’ll be on your way around the half 12 mark UAE time.
EDIT - for clarity, by ‘forecast’ I mean the information given to flight crew that form the official met forecast given to airline crews in order to assist in fuel decisions. There is no mention of fog on that forecast. The information provided to airport users based there which is reproduced below was subsequently updated to include the smallest chance of it occurring, which it actually did end up doing.
