Dubai International Airport continues to top the list of the world's largest airports in terms of seat capacity on international departures, with a large margin of about seven million seats a year, compared to its British counterpart London Heathrow .
According to data sent by OAG to Emirates Today, the total scheduled seat capacity at Dubai International Airport in 2019, from January 1 to the end of December, reached 54.169 million 79 seats on international departures. Only from Dubai International.
Britain's London Heathrow Airport came in second with 47 million seats, followed by Hong Kong International Airport with 46 million seats on departing flights, while Singapore and Incheon airports South Korea ranked fourth and fifth. The French airport Charles de Gaulle recorded about 41 million seats scheduled.
The first in the world
Dubai International was ranked first globally in seat capacity, despite the closure of the airport's southern runway for 45 days from April 16 to May 30, 2019, as the number of flights through the airport saw a 10% decline. Emirates cut 25% of the total number of flights operated during the period.
Capacity
The airport has a capacity of more than 90 million passengers, while Dubai Airports is working on a new plan, dubbed DXB Plus, to increase the airport's capacity to 118 million passengers by 2023.
Dubai International removed its London counterpart Heathrow from the top spot in international passenger traffic in 2014, for the first time in history, and retained its lead in the list of the largest international airports for the fifth consecutive year, with the number of passengers using Airport to 89.1 million passengers in 2018.
Traveler Number Billion
Dubai International Airport, which opened on September 30, 1960, received the `` billion '' passenger on December 20, 2018, and continued to be the world's largest airport in the number of international passengers, and ranked third globally in the total number of domestic and international passengers together, after Dubai's Hartsfield Atlanta airports and Beijing's Chinese capital, Dubai International, are the fourth largest in international air cargo, handling more than 2.46 million tonnes of cargo in 2018.
8500 weekly flights
The total number of flights at Dubai International Airport is approximately 8,500 weekly, operated by carriers operating at more than 240 international destinations.
According to Dubai Airports, there are more than 80 international airlines operating from the airport, while the number of employees at Dubai International Airport to about 100,000 employees.