Operations at DXB were suspended for 25 minutes earlier in the day because of a storm.

On the other hand, motorists battled through heavy rain in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday evening as storms in the region killed at least 18 people in neighbouring Oman.

The National Emergency, Crisis and Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA) told residents to leave the safety of their homes only in ‘cases of extreme necessity’.

The authority also advised motorists to park vehicles in ‘distant, safe, and elevated locations away from areas prone to flooding’.

Officials in Oman said that at least 18 people have died since Sunday, including nine schoolchildren and their driver who were killed when their vehicle was washed away by the floodwaters in Samad A’Shan.

Emirates Airline on Wednesday suspended check-in for passengers departing until midnight after record rains caused significant damage across the United Arab Emirates.

The Dubai-based carrier said passengers arriving to Dubai and already in transit would continue to be processed but warned that delays to departures and arrivals should be expected.

Dubai International, the hub for Emirates Airline, separately said that it was experiencing significant disruptions with flights delayed or diverted due to the heavy rains.

The airport, which is the world’s busiest for international flights and a major transit hub, in a post on social media advised passengers in Dubai not to come to the airport.

“We are working hard to recover operations as quickly as possible in very challenging conditions,” it wrote on X.

The airport briefly suspended operations on Tuesday as the rains caused flooding across Dubai and elsewhere in the UAE.

Local media reported that an elderly Emirati man in his 70s died on Tuesday morning when his vehicle was caught in flash floods in the Ras Al Khaimah emirate, in the country’s north.