{"id":85877,"date":"2026-03-03T19:29:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85877"},"modified":"2026-03-03T19:29:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:29:47","slug":"fury-of-stranded-brits-as-british-airways-runs-middle-east-evacuation-jet-with-100-empty-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/03\/fury-of-stranded-brits-as-british-airways-runs-middle-east-evacuation-jet-with-100-empty-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Fury of stranded Brits as British Airways runs Middle East evacuation jet with 100 empty seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1XsqU1.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"British Airways flew an evacuation flight on Monday which had 100 empty seats (file pic)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/british_airways\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">British Airways<\/a> evacuation flight from the Middle East took off with more than 100 empty seats despite thousands of Brits registering as stranded in the Gulf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/travel\/news\/fury-of-stranded-brits-as-british-airways-runs-middle-east-evacuation-jet-with-100-empty-seats\/ar-AA1Xstdc?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69a6f57133fc4f148c1fb2334d764258&amp;cvpid=4cc21e2ac3c44bbfe1e32a641d6ede58&amp;ei=12\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A\u00a0British Airways evacuation flight from the Middle East took off with more than 100 empty seats despite thousands of Brits registering as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/British-Airways.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85878,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85877\/revisions\/85878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}