Dubai International 2nd fastest growing airport in Middle East, Africa

Dubai International was the second fastest growing airport in April in the Middle East and Africa after Doha, Airports Council International (ACI), the worldwide association of airports, said.

“Passenger traffic in the UAE and Qatar grew by 7.5% and 20.2% respectively. Doha (DOH) has continued to maintain momentum, and is the fastest-growing airport in the region (+20.2% or +507,000 passengers), followed closely by Dubai (DXB, +7.2% or + 468,000 passengers),” ACI said in its monthly bulletin.

Dubai airport strengthened its position as world’s number 1 international airport with annual traffic of 78 million passengers in 2015. DXB became the world’s number 1 airport for international passengers in 2014 with passenger numbers totalling 70.4 million.

In the Middle East, all major aviation markets demonstrated robust growth, it noted.

In terms of freight traffic also, Dubai achieved noticeable growth in April.

“Despite the robust air freight growth of 4.9% of the (MEA) region as a whole and impressive growth of 19.1% (+22,600 tonnes) at Doha (DOH), growth at Dubai (DXB, +4.8% or +9,700 tonnes) was offset by air freight declines at Sharjah (SHJ, -19.9% or -3,200 tonnes) and Abu Dhabi (AUH, -10.8% or -7,900 tonnes),” it added.

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