{"id":37853,"date":"2026-03-20T14:39:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=37853"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:39:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:39:44","slug":"some-tourists-in-malaysia-make-most-of-mideast-flight-mess-as-others-scramble-to-get-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=37853","title":{"rendered":"Some tourists in Malaysia make most of Mideast flight mess as others scramble to get home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/20\/cca6ebee-925e-42e6-81ed-cec5a200e105_91d5d7f2.jpg?itok=AMAhgyfe&amp;v=1773980405\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Flights are cancelled, schedules are in chaos and scores of European tourists are still waiting to go home, three weeks after the United States and Israeli <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">attack on Iran<\/span>.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Some of them, like retiree John Williams, 61, and his wife Gillian, 60, from the United Kingdom, are making good use of their \u201cextended\u201d time in <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Malaysia<\/span>.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe\u2019re sort of stranded, but frankly we are in no hurry. We are spending a few days in Penang and will explore other ways to get home later,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe saw that others have flown back using unusual transit routes. We just hope things get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Their flight to London was cancelled on March 3, and despite daily checks on websites, emails and airline travel groups, they have yet to receive any update.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Businessman Billy Clifford is scheduled to fly to Paris next month via transit in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia\/article\/3347253\/some-tourists-malaysia-make-most-mideast-flight-mess-others-scramble-get-home?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flights are cancelled, schedules are in chaos and scores of European tourists are still waiting to go home, three weeks after the United States and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[1153,469,4349,6223,17364,9334,5593],"class_list":["post-37853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-flight","tag-home","tag-malaysia","tag-mess","tag-mideast","tag-scramble","tag-tourists","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}