Dubai Airport Passengers Up 7.7% Year-On-Year To Record In January

Passenger traffic at Dubai International Airport, which overtook London’s Heathrow last year as the world’s busiest airport for international passenger business, rose 7.7 per cent to a record in January, the airport’s operator said on Monday.

Passenger numbers climbed to 6.9 million in January from 6.4 million a year earlier, Dubai Airports said in a statement. Eastern European routes saw the fastest expansion of traffic, followed by North America.

Freight volume fell 5.5 per cent from a year earlier to 186,230 tonnes because of last year’s shift of dedicated cargo operations to Dubai’s other international airport, Al Maktoum International.