Had a friend stuck in Dubai for several days with Emirates.
Despite having hundreds of stranded people bound for Newcastle & Manchester all the extra flights (there were several) EK put all of them into Gatwick.
Pax were told if you accept the Gatwick flt then you are on your own after that.
Pretty disapointing that none of the extras were routed into MAN.
Having spent 5 days in Dubai, including 2 days at the airport, they were in effect dumped at Gatwick at midnight.