«Competitiveness and Statistics»: 4.583 million aircraft arriving and departing at the country’s airports between 2014 and 2020

Dubai accounts for 59.3% of aircraft traffic in the country in 7 years

The Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Center reported that the total number of aircraft coming to and leaving the country during seven years amounted to four million and 583 thousand and 957 aircraft, in a new indication that the UAE is a major regional center for aviation and travel in the region and the world.

The center revealed that Dubai acquired the largest percentage of aircraft traffic by 59.3%, with 2,718,224 arriving and departing aircraft.

total movement

In a report on the movement of aircraft through the country's airports between 2014 and 2020, the center explained that the country's main airports in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah and Fujairah received two million and 82,955 aircraft, while the country's main airports in the five Emirates departed. , two million and 82 thousand and 309 planes, with a total of four million and 165 thousand and 264 planes arriving and departing, in addition to 418 thousand and 693 planes arriving and leaving through other local airports during the same period.

movement distribution

According to the report, Dubai accounted for the largest percentage of aircraft movement by 59.3%, with 2,718,224 incoming and outgoing aircraft, including 1,359,23 incoming aircraft and 1,359,201 departing aircraft.

In turn, Abu Dhabi recorded 918,081 incoming and outgoing aircraft, including 459,515 incoming and 458,493 departing aircraft, followed by Sharjah with 497,510 incoming and outgoing aircraft, including 248,521 incoming and 248,989 departing aircraft.

Ras Al Khaimah came fourth with a total of 27 thousand and one incoming and outgoing flights, including 13,593 incoming flights, and 13,408 departures.

Fujairah recorded a total of 4,521 incoming and outgoing flights, including 2,303 incoming flights and 2,218 departing flights.

intensive investment

The Director-General of the General Civil Aviation Authority, Saif Al-Suwaidi, had previously announced that the UAE has invested heavily over the past years in developing and expanding its airports, through the implementation of various projects and initiatives that contribute to the development of airport infrastructure, to increase its capacity, to meet the expectations of the UAE to serve two billion passengers. Through its airports in the coming years, as well as the development in the field of aircraft parts manufacturing, and work to attract investors from outside the country, to establish their businesses in companies and national airports.

The authority estimated the value of foreign projects being implemented in this regard until 2020 at more than $1 trillion.

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