Officers say Dubai Worldwide Airport, the world’s busiest for worldwide journey, noticed a report 92.3 million passengers cross via its terminals in 2024
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai Worldwide Airport, the world’s busiest for worldwide journey, noticed a report 92.3 million passengers cross via its terminals in 2024, officers introduced Thursday.
The end result cements Dubai’s bounce again from the coronavirus pandemic, surpassing the earlier report set in 2018 for the primary time. In the present day, the airport looks like it’s bursting on the seams with plane actions and crowds shifting via its cavernous terminals as authorities plan to maneuver operations in 10 years to the city-state’s second airport after a virtually $35 billion improve.
Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, introduced the determine on the social media platform X. The state-owned airport is residence to the long-haul provider Emirates, which powers the community of state-owned and state-linked companies referred to as “Dubai Inc.”
“Dubai is the airport of the world … and a brand new world within the aviation sector,” Sheikh Mohammed wrote.
In 2023, the airport, referred to as DXB, had 86.9 million passengers. Its 2019 site visitors was 86.3 million passengers. It had 89.1 million passengers in 2018 — its earlier busiest-ever 12 months earlier than the pandemic, whereas 66 million passengers handed via in 2022.
An actual-estate increase and town’s highest-ever tourism numbers have made Dubai a vacation spot in addition to a layover. Nevertheless, town is now grappling with rising site visitors and prices pressuring each its Emirati residents and the international residents who energy its economic system.
In 10 years, Dubai plans to maneuver its airport operations to Al Maktoum Worldwide Airport, some 45 kilometers (28 miles) away from DXB. The airport, which opened in 2010 with one terminal and is named DWC, served as a car parking zone for Emirates’ double-decker Airbus A380s and different plane throughout the pandemic. However since then, it has slowly returned to life with cargo and personal flights. It additionally hosts the biennial Dubai Air Present and has an unlimited, empty desert by which to increase.
DXB and DWC serve 106 airways flying to 272 cities in 107 nations internationally.