Well I'll answer some or the ranters on this thread. My original suggestion was that the aircraft could have landed at PIK, fuelled with the passengers aboard then flown back to GLA, arriving perhaps two hours late, and allowed the outbound flight to depart perhaps two hours late, with the waiting crew at GLA flying that flight. Instead the aircraft arrived at GLA about 22 hours late, without at least some of its passengers who travelled by train to Edinburgh and home the next day. The outbound pax were delayed the 22 hours or so. If any of you think that Emirates or any other airline are ill equipped to land at PIK then if you are flying in northern UK airspace and have a comms failure or worse then the Typhoons will escort you into PIK so you had better rethink that one (Egyptair B777 a few years ago and others more recently). Similarly tech diversions (Air France B777 in December resulting in 2 B777s handled side by side) land at PIK. It may require thinking ahead (eg Ryanairs calling PIK advising they may divert) to in this case get the Fire category up from 7 to 9, 30 minutes notice. RAF A330s regularly depart PIK with full pax load, and of course B777Fs, B744Fs and B748Fs are daily visitors. All handling is inhouse, without the help of Swissport which may be the root of some of the ranting. Many posts here give no consideration to the passengers, who from some Facebook posts describe what happened as a debacle. And to question if PIK have Hi-Los etc just shows pure ignorance or agenda at work. For me it was all about the passengers, and what did not need to happen to them, but maybe they are of little or no consideration for some here. Hopefully Emirates are giving some consideration to what happened, and the cost of what happened.