A Reason He Held for 1:40 Maybe
Elsewhere, its been stated he was leaving to start a new job with RyanAir. If he was due to leave the UAE shortly after returning from this flight, say the day after getting back, a diversion and subsequent rest period might have caused him to miss his booked flight out of there or caused him to be late for any number of things that ordinarily wouldn't affect our planning, so maybe this might explain the 2 hour holding... To get back home. The EK flight to Lca from Dxb departs around 0830L from memory. Just putting it out there.