Dubai overtakes Heathrow as busiest international landing field

DUBAI: Traffic at the landing field magnified half-dozen.1 per cent last year, Dubai Airports same, and it expects the amount of travellers passing through the hub to surge in 2015 to seventy nine million. Dubai International is home to Emirates, the center East´s largest carrier, that at the side of Abu Dhabi´s Etihad and Qatar Airways have appropriated a big portion of travel between the West, Asia and Australasia.

Dubai International has overtaken London´s Heathrow landing field to become the world´s high hub in international travel when handling seventy.47 million passengers in 2014, its authority same on Tues. Heathrow handled sixty eight.1 million international passengers in 2014, in keeping with landing field figures.

The British hub still inferior Dubai International in overall numbers, handling seventy three.4 million passengers if travellers on domestic flights area unit enclosed. This historic milestone is that the fruits of over 5 decades of double-digit average growth, Dubai Airports Chairman tribal sheik Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum same in a very statement.

The Gulf emirate´s alternative landing field, Al-Maktoum International, opened in 2013 for passengers and can be capable of handling one hundred twenty million travellers once completed by 2022. Dubai Airports chief operating officer Paul Griffiths same Dubai International would boost its annual capability to ninety million passengers this year with the gap of Concourse new hall for arrivals and departures.