OAG: Air carriers at the country’s airports added 66,600 seats in a week

The UAE tops the list of the 20 largest global markets for air transport

OAG: The country’s airports have recorded strong and continuous growth rates in their capabilities during the current year.

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The UAE ranked first in the list of the 20 largest air transport markets in the world in terms of growth in scheduled seat capacity on flights at its international airports (number of seats), according to data published by OAG International, a provider of airport and airline data.

The Corporation revealed that airlines operating in the UAE airports will occupy about 1.35 million seats on international flights departing during the week that started from July 25, compared to 1.27 million seats in the previous week, with a growth rate of 5.2%, noting that air carriers in airports The state added about 66.6 thousand seats in one week.

Seating capacity

According to the data, the seat capacity in the country's airports has reached its highest level since the "Covid-19" pandemic, pointing out that this week recorded a growth of about 98% in seat capacity compared to the same period last year 2021, when it was occupying about 680 at the time. A thousand seats only.

The data revealed that the country’s airports have regained about 90% of the capacity they were operating, compared to pre-pandemic levels.

strong growth

OAG's data indicated that the country's airports recorded strong and continuous growth rates in their capabilities during the current year compared to last year's levels, with more airlines resuming their flights, opening new destinations, as well as operating additional flights to various international markets.

OAG stated that airlines in the Middle East region will occupy about 4.6 million seats this week, with a growth rate of 1%, compared to the previous week, pointing out that the UAE market accounts for about 29% of the total volume of capacity occupied by airlines. Aviation in the region as a whole.

movement globally

“OAG” said that for the second week in a row, the capacity of global airlines declined again with a decrease of 0.3%, noting that, however, the capacity is still above 100 million seats, for the fourth week in a row, while this is likely to be exceeded during the next few weeks.

Scheduled seats

It is noteworthy that the total number of seats scheduled on international flights through Dubai International Airport this July exceeded four million, which is the highest number since the start of the “Covid-19” pandemic, according to the institution’s report, which was recently issued, thus replacing “Dubai International” in the first place, As the largest international airport in scheduled seat capacity on international flights, far ahead of “London Heathrow”, which ranked second.

International flights

According to data received by "Emirates Today", a copy of it, Dubai International Airport took the lead as the largest airport in the world for international flights, with a difference of about half a million seats, compared to "London Heathrow International Airport", which recorded about 3.5 million seats, followed by "Amsterdam Dutch Airport" came in third place with 3.15 million seats, while Paris International Airport came in fourth place with 3.1 million seats, and Frankfurt Airport, Germany, ranked fifth with about three million seats.

41.37 million passengers in 2021

The General Civil Aviation Authority confirmed that the number of passengers traveling through the airports of the UAE in 2021, a growth of 15.8%.

Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah airports achieved an increasing performance in terms of passenger numbers in 2021, registering more than 41 million and 370 thousand passengers, an increase of more than 16% compared to 2020, when the number of passengers reached approximately 35 million and 370 thousand passengers.

Emirates Airports operated 1.35 million seats on international outbound flights during the week of July 25.

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