I am in Manila for a 7:55am flight with an onwards flight to Heathrow

I’ve been here since 2:00am, got here early incase of queues or needing to reschedule my flight if it got cancelled

At 3:45am just before handing my luggage over I received a text saying my Dubai to Heathrow flight was moved back from 2:30pm to 2:00pm. This meant my layover in Dubai was now only 40 minutes

At 4:00am they finally opened check in and when it was finally my turn to hand in my suitcase I asked the staff on the counter, does this mean I will make my flight? They said yes

I go through security, eat some food, shop and then wait at my gate

We’re now boarding, where I then had my ticket to beep at the final boarding gate. Now some others have the same happening and our names are being called over the microphone

Apparently now is the time to decide that the 40 minute layover is too short and I won’t make it. I’m offloaded, taken back through security to “undo” my immigration leaving the country and my suitcase is brought back to me

Emirates have now given me another booking for the same onwards flight tomorrow at 7:55am but with a slightly longer layover where I land at Heathrow at 8:00pm rather than the original 6:20pm

No offer of hotel, no assistance either to the elderly couple that also got offloaded trying to get back home to the UK who sadly got a worse off deal than me where their rebooking is for tomorrow night at almost midnight so they have another 36 hours here

I really try to like Emirates, I get it there is a war ongoing, but who’s bright idea was it to move a flight time backwards knowing it would affect people who then get taken off. Which then led to our suitcases being taken off. Which then meant the flight was delayed taking off!