Dubai to Tampa, 14 May 2020
Travel from Dubai to US May 14, 2020 . Last Thursday my husband Bruce and I departed the DXB to return Stateside for the summer break. I am a college professor at American University of Sharjah, and my exams, grading, etc. were done by May 12. Here is what I hope will answer many questions raised on this platform and others re travel during these difficult times. A) We did not know we could get out until Saturday, May 9, 5 days before departure. My husband, a furloughed US-based engineer, made spread sheet after spread sheet detailing all the possible flight options to get us to our eventual New Port Richey (TPA), Florida, home. You are already aware that flight options are/were changing rapidly out of DXB. We did not want to fly out of AUH (which did offer a couple of direct US flights) because getting there is difficult, and for our return we didn’t want to have to deal with that. That forced us to fly out through DXB, so nothing else was considered, and Emirates at that time