Dubai International Airport has become the world’s busiest airport in terms of international passenger traffic – for the fifth time in a row. the operator reported that last year Dubai International Airport served 89.1 million passengers, which is 1% more than in 2017.
The airport received 7.4 million passengers per month, while in July and August this figure exceeded 8 million. The total number of flights decreased by 0.3% to 408,200, and the average number of travelers on each flight increased by 1.3% to 226.
The most popular routes were connecting Dubai with India (serving 12.28 million people), Saudi Arabia (6.4 million people) and the UK (6.2 million people). Passenger traffic on Russian routes increased by 14.5% to 1.5 million people.
Dubai International Airport for the first time overtook London’s Heathrow, becoming the leader in the number of passengers transported abroad, in 2014.
Dubai International Airport is the primary international airport serving Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is the third-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic, the sixth-busiest cargo airport in the world, the busiest airport for Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 movements, and the airport with the highest average number of passengers per flight. Dubai International is situated in the Al Garhoud district, on 4.6 km east of Dubai and spread over an area of 3,100 acres (1,250 ha) of land.
