{"id":21057,"date":"2022-02-22T15:29:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=21057"},"modified":"2022-02-22T15:29:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:29:46","slug":"dxb-retains-title-of-worlds-busiest-international-airport-for-8th-consecutive-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/international-news\/dxb-retains-title-of-worlds-busiest-international-airport-for-8th-consecutive-year\/%20","title":{"rendered":"DXB Retains Title of World\u2019s Busiest International Airport for 8th Consecutive Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dubai International (DXB) continues to be the world\u2019s\nbusiest airport by international passenger numbers for the eighth consecutive\nyear after clocking 29.1 million in annual traffic in 2021. DXB\u2019s annual\ntraffic exceeded forecasts for the year by more than half a million passengers,\non the back of a strong last quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paul Griffiths, CEO of Dubai Airports, described an eventful\nyear which, despite the uncertainties of the global pandemic, contained many\nmilestones that demonstrate several bold steps taken by Dubai and its aviation\nsector to lead the recovery of global air travel, including  the successful hosting of the Dubai Airshow\n2021, the world\u2019s first major airshow since the start of the pandemic, the\nreturn of DXB to 100% operational capacity with the reopening of Terminal\n1-Concourse D and Concourse A, and the opening of the world\u2019s largest in-house\nairport laboratory for fast-track processing Covid-19 PCR test samples for\nDubai\u2019s visitors. The airport also welcomed a record number of new airlines connecting\nDubai to new destinations and joined the rest of the city in creating a warm\nwelcome for millions of visitors to Expo 2020 Dubai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Describing DXB\u2019s performance in 2021 as nothing short of\nimpressive, Griffiths said, “Despite unprecedented turmoil affecting\nmillions of people all over the world, we overcame many serious obstacles to\nthe operation of the world\u2019s largest international hub and provided smooth,\ncomfortable and safe travel for millions of people travelling through DXB. This\nincredible performance by all of our staff and stakeholders was achieved in the\nface of abruptly changing travel regulations and concerns about new waves of\ninfection. Despite these serious challenges to our ongoing success, we managed\nto exceed our own forecasts and continue to retain our crown as the world\u2019s\nbusiest international airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the eagerly anticipated reopening of key markets such\nas Australasia and the further easing of travel regulations around the world,\nthe outlook for 2022 is very promising and we are in an excellent position to\ncontinue to lead the world\u2019s air travel sector on the road to recovery.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current forecasts indicate that traffic through DXB could\nreach 55.1m by the end of 2022, but Griffiths acknowledges that if current trends\ncontinue, that figure could be exceeded by a significant margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Key figures<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DXB welcomed 29,110,609 passengers for the full year of\n2021, a year-on year-growth of 12.7%. The numbers were propelled by a robust\ngrowth in the final three months of the year during which DXB recorded\n11,794,046 passengers, 77% more than in the previous quarter. It was the\nbusiest quarter since Q1 2020, and the first time since the start of the\npandemic that DXB\u2019s quarterly traffic surpassed the 10 million mark. December\nwas the busiest month of the year with 4.5 million passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top destinations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

India retained its position as the top destination country\nfor DXB by passenger volume, with passenger traffic for 2021 totaling 4.2m,\nfollowed by Pakistan with 1.8m, Saudi Arabia with 1.5m, and the United Kingdom\nwith 1.2m passengers. Other destination countries of note include the US (1.1m\npassengers), Egypt (1m) and the Turkey (945,000 passengers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DXB\u2019s top destination cities during 2021 were Istanbul with\n916,000 passengers, Cairo (905,000), London (814,000) and New Delhi (791,000\npassengers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DXB is currently connected to 198 destinations across 93\ncountries through 84 international carriers \u2013 significantly more than in 2019\nbefore the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flights<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of flight movements at DXB reached 77,671 during\nthe fourth quarter bringing the annual flight movements to 233,375, a\nyear-on-year growth of 28.1%. The average number of passengers per flight\nreached 154, down 18.9% year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cargo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cargo continued its strong performance throughout the year\nfinishing with 614,834 tons of cargo in the fourth quarter (7.5%) taking the\nannual freight volume in 2021 up by 20% to 2,319,185 tons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dubai International (DXB) continues to be the world\u2019s busiest airport by international passenger numbers for the eighth consecutive year after clocking 29.1 million in annual traffic in 2021. DXB\u2019s annual traffic exceeded forecasts for the year by more than half a million passengers, on the back of a strong last quarter. Paul Griffiths, CEO of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dxbarrivalst3-edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21061,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057\/revisions\/21061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}