Dubai: According to Dubai airport’s latest monthly report, passenger traffic at Dubai International totalled 5,080,360 in February up from 4,561,147 recorded during the same month in 2012, an increase of 11.4%.The Dispatch News Desk (DND) reports.
Year to date, passenger numbers are up 13% to 10,640,120 from 9,413,286 recorded during the same period last year. Aircraft movements reached 28,085 in February, climbing 3.8% from the 27,058 recorded in February 2012.
Dubai Airports CEO Paul Griffiths said: “We are also on track in terms of introducing capacity to meet demand. Concourse A is fully online and setting new standards for A380 service. All three projects are integral elements of our US$7.8bn airport strategic plan to boost capacity and augment service levels over the next several years.”
Regionally, Eastern Europe was the fastest-expanding market in terms of percentage growth (+29.6%) driven by new services to Poland (Emirates) and Macedonia (Flydubai), followed by Asia Pacific (+21.8%), Russia & CIS (+18.5%), AGCC (16.5%) and Asia (15%) thanks primarily to the additional Emirates daily service to Manila. The internal Middle East regional market was the only region to record fewer travellers with a slight year-on-year drop of 1.6%.
The top three destination countries include the Indian Subcontinent, was up 10.8% while UK saw a 5.2% traffic increase and number three market Saudi Arabia continued growth with a 42.3% increase.
