Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, says it served 41.6 million passengers in the first half of this year
FILE - Paul Griffiths, the CEO of Dubai Airports, attends the Dubai Air Show in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Nov. 15, 2021. Dubai International Airport, the world's busiest for international travel, announced Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023, it served 41.6 million passengers in the first half of this year — exceeding figures for the same period in 2019 as travelers return to the air after the lockdowns of the coronavirus pandemic.
The 41.6 million passengers is up some 50% from the 27.9 million recorded the same time last year, asPassenger traffic this year largely has been driven by the airport’s standard travel destinations — India, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and Pakistan. Russia has also been a major market as Dubai remains one of the few places still open to Russians amid Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
“What happened pre-pandemic is we saw 60% transit and 40% point to point, but that’s actually reversed,” Griffiths said. “What we’re now seeing is 60% of that traffic number is point to point and 40% is transit. So that’s a very notable statistic and underpins the appeal of Dubai as a very, very strong tourist destination.”
Griffiths said given the demand, the airport has bumped its projected passenger numbers for 2023 to 85 million, just shy of 2019's annual traffic of 86.3 million passengers. The airport saw 89.1 million passengers in 2018 — its busiest-ever year before the pandemic. DXB had 66 million passengers pass through it in 2022.
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