15 days in the Maldives to celebrate a wedding after twelve years of living together. Their honeymoon was supposed to be idyllic, but it ended in a real nightmare. A Spanish couple had to book 8 flights in 3 days to try to return to Barcelona because of the war in Iran.
Their journey began on February 15, the date of their departure from Spain for an island in the Maldives. If the first two weeks of the trip went perfectly, the coordinated attack by the United States and Israel on Iran changed their plan.
“I want to go home”
Their return, scheduled for March 2, was simply canceled. “Monday morning, we woke up in the Maldives and, when I opened my emails, I saw that Kuwait Airways had canceled our flight,†Sonia told Catalan radio RAC1.
Having to absolutely return to take care of their 9-year-old child, the couple was only offered a simple refund by the airline. “I didn’t want this money, I want to go home. I need to be offered another flight to Barcelona. They told me there were no flights available and there was nothing else they could do,” she explains.
For their part, the Spanish diplomatic authorities advised them to wait for airspace to reopen in the Gulf. Sonia and her husband ended up choosing to return on their own: “We decided to take the first flight that came. At least, to go from the Maldives to India, it was possible. It was operational. We took it to get a little closer to home. HAS”
Once in India, in Goa to be precise, the couple spent two days “without sleeping” scouring the comparators to find a route home. Sonia and her husband have for the moment booked a journey that is almost impossible to imagine. They will first go to Mumbai, before passing through Krabi (Thailand), then Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Karachi (Pakistan), Istanbul (Turkey), Basel (Switzerland) and, finally, Barcelona.
In total, their 51-hour journey includes 8 flights for a price of “only” 1,300 euros. “If one of them is canceled or delayed, we will lose everything else. We would lose the money and we would find ourselves stranded,” fears Sonia, before boarding her second flight. The ordeal has only just begun.
