Aircraft was due to depart Muscat, Oman, at 7pm on Wednesday

130,000 British nationals have registered as being in the Middle East

The chartered flight is currently scheduled to leave Muscat International Airport in Oman on Wednesday evening.

The flight will depart Oman’s capital at 7pm on Wednesday

The U.K. charters a repatriation flight for stranded nationals amid West Asia conflict, enhancing security with a Royal Navy deployment.

First government rescue flight from Oman to set off on Wednesday evening with two more ‘in the coming days’

Aircraft was due to depart Muscat, Oman, at 7pm on Wednesday

First government-chartered flight to evacuate citizens from Middle East takes off from Muscat one day late

The plane landed at London's Stansted Airport in the early hours of Friday morning.

Passengers at Stansted airport report chaotic scenes and uncertainty during evacuation process

It comes after thousands of flights had been cancelled in the Middle East in the past week.