Calder said: “At around 4am the airport announced that it was closing. At that time, the flight from Edinburgh, EK24 going to Dubai had just about reached the Egyptian mainland.
“Unfortunately the crew were told ‘back to where you started from’. What a miserable experience.”
He added: “So many Scots depend on flying out to the Gulf. Of more concern is if you are in Australia, Asia or Africa trying to come back, air passenger rights rules don’t apply if you’re booked on a non EU or non UK airline.”
“Things are getting worse and worse before hopefully they will get better.”
Calder said it was a “really difficult time to be travelling”.
He told the programme: “If you are going through the Gulf you are taking something of a risk, although from what I’ve seen, plenty of people are prepared to take that risk in order to get where they need to be.”
An Emirates spokeswoman said: “We can confirm the flight returned to Edinburgh due to operational disruption.”
She added that Emirates was currently operating a reduced schedule and asked passengers to check the latest travel advisory and updates, external.
Edinburgh Airport said it would not comment on the situation.
