Emirates flight arrives amid travel chaosBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporterAn Emirates flight from Dubai arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport yesterday afternoon, the first service of the airline since the US and Israel launched strikes against Iran on Saturday. Flight EK366 took off from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at 3:51am yesterday and landed at 4:02pm before taxiing to the airport’s D6 gate at Terminal 2 at 4:08pm, data from the airport and FlightAware, a global flight tracking site, showed. Of the 501 passengers on the flight, 275 were Taiwanese, including 96 group tour travelers, the data showed. Tourism Administration Deputy Director-General Huang He-ting, left, and Taoyuan International Airport Corp chairman Yang Wei-fuu, center, greet people arriving on Emirates Airlines Flight EK366 at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport yesterday. As UAE has limited open airspace, business travelers there are advised to leave by boarding Emirates flights when services resume, the ministry said.

Source: Taipei Times March 04, 2026 16:31 UTC