DUBAI International began the New Year with file month-to-month site visitors of seven.3 million passengers in January, surpassing the earlier benchmark of seven.2 million passengers which was set in August 2015.
Passenger site visitors reached 7,327,637 in January 2016, up 6.3 per cent from 6,895,668 registered throughout the identical month in 2015, in accordance with the site visitors report issued by operator Dubai Airports in the present day.
In phrases of share progress, North America recorded the best progress in passenger site visitors (19.9 per cent) – led by Emirates with the addition of an Orlando route and elevated companies to Boston, New York and Seattle.
This was adopted by the GCC (11.6 per cent), the place Saudi Arabia registered double-digit progress because of the surge in site visitors from Jeddah, and the Indian subcontinent (8.7 per cent) primarily propelled by site visitors on routes to historically sturdy markets of India and Pakistan.
India remained the highest vacation spot nation in January with a complete of 989,819 passengers, adopted by Saudi Arabia (606,730 passengers) and the UK (488,819 passengers) whereas London was positioned primary on the checklist of high vacation spot cities adopted carefully by Doha and Jeddah.
Aircraft actions totalled 35,914 through the month underneath evaluate in comparison with 34,643 actions recorded in January 2015, up 3.7 per cent.
Passengers per plane motion in January got here in at 214.
DXB dealt with freight volumes totalling 201,483 tonnes in January 2016, a rise of 8.2 per cent in comparison with 186,230 tonnes recorded in January 2015.
“The record passenger numbers in January confirm that the growth trend from last year has continued into 2016 and we are on course to meet our projection of 85 million passengers that we expect to pass through our airport this year,” stated Dubai Airports chief government Paul Griffiths.
“Concourse D’s opening in February has increased DXB’s capacity to 90 million passengers a year, allowing us to continue to accommodate the rising number of people whilst boosting service levels.
“In the months ahead we will begin the complete refurbishment of Concourse C which will further improve passenger flows and the overall customer experience,” he added.
