The latest data issued by the list of the largest international airports, in terms of numbers of international travelers, showed that Dubai International Airport maintained its position as the largest international airport in the world, for the sixth year in a row, in 2019 as a whole.
According to the latest data issued by Dubai Airports Corporation, the number of passengers during the first nine months of last year amounted to 64.5 million, but the organization expected that Dubai Airport will deal, during the year 2019, with the same number of passengers recorded in 2018, which reached more than 89.14 million passengers.
On the other hand, the total number of passengers through London Heathrow Airport, which is ranked second in the list of the largest international airports in the world, reached about 80.8 million passengers, including 76 million international passengers.
The total number of passengers through the "Hong Kong" international airport ranked third came to about 72 million passengers in 11 months by the end of last November, while the number of passengers through the fourth "Charles de Gaulle" airport reached about 70 million until last November. In turn, the "Amsterdam Schiphol" International Airport ranked fifth, 71 million passengers, during the past year as a whole (the total number of passengers).
Dubai International managed to maintain its position as the world's largest airport in the number of international travelers, despite the closure of the airport's southern runway for 45 days to complete the rehabilitation project, as well as the global ban on the Boeing 737 Max since March 2019.
Dubai International Airport, which opened on September 30, 1960, removed its London Heathrow counterpart from the first place in the number of international passengers during 2014, for the first time in history, after the British airport retained the lead, since the start of commercial air transport in the world.
According to the international provider of airport data «OAG», Dubai International Airport also maintains its position, as the largest hub for international air transport in the world, in terms of seat capacity provided by scheduled flights.
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Dubai Airports Corporation reported that Dubai International Airport seeks to bring the distance between it and the American "Hartsfield Atlanta" airports, and "Beijing Capital" of China, in terms of assuming the first position in terms of total passenger traffic, not only for international travelers.
Dubai International Airport has a capacity of more than 90 million passengers, while the Foundation is working on a new plan, dubbed the "DXP Plus" plan, to increase the airport's capacity to 118 million passengers by 2023.
And Dubai Airports expected that Dubai Airport will record two-year growth rates this year in conjunction with the start of the Expo 2020 Dubai, which will raise the demand for aviation to record levels.
Dubai airport maintained its first position, despite the closure of its southern runway for 45 days.