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Dubai Airports: The number of passengers to and from Dubai is 10% higher compared to 2019 levels

  • Dubai Airport recorded strong passenger flow rates last October.

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  • Paul Griffiths: "Dubai International Airport recorded a double increase in the number of passengers during the third quarter of 2022."

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Dubai Airports CEO, Paul Griffiths, said that passenger traffic at Dubai International Airport during this December is 10% higher compared to pre-pandemic levels (in 2019), for travel to and from Dubai directly, regardless of the number of transit passengers, simultaneously. With the holiday season.

"But I am fully confident that by the end of December, Dubai Airport will record a record number of incoming and outgoing passenger traffic to and from Dubai," Griffiths told reporters on the sidelines of the "Global Skift Forum", which concluded its work in Dubai at the end of the week.

passenger traffic

Griffiths indicated that Dubai Airports Corporation's expectations for passenger traffic in Dubai International are still the same, or about 64.3 million passengers during 2022 as a whole.

He said, "Our expectations are still in the same range during the current time, as another million passengers have been added to the expectations for the number of passengers at Dubai Airport after the issuance of the Afrin travel report for the second quarter of this year," explaining that "the monthly traffic is in the range of six million." A monthly passenger in the second half of 2022.

Double increase

And Griffiths indicated that Dubai International Airport recorded a double increase in the number of passengers during the third quarter of this year, bringing the total number of passengers to more than 18 million passengers during that period, to receive about 46 million and 340 thousand and 826 passengers, from January to September 2022, an increase of 167.9% year on year.

He stressed that the indicators of recovery in international travel are important, and they are good in view of the future and the coming months, noting that Dubai Airports Corporation expects to register about 7.5 million on a monthly basis during the next year.

Griffiths said, "By the end of next year and during the last quarter in particular, we expect to reach pre-pandemic levels in the number of travelers on a monthly basis, to continue this until 2024, when it is expected to reach the stage of full recovery in the number of travelers on an annual basis."

powerful flow

Griffiths explained that Dubai International Airport recorded, for example, during October this year, strong flow rates of passengers during peak periods, as the airport received about 2.1 million passengers between 21 and 30 October, with a daily average of more than 215,000 passengers from Dubai. And to her.

He stated that more airlines have resumed their operations at Dubai Airport, as well as other new companies that have started operating their flights from the airport, pointing to a significant growth in the operations of various companies.

100 international airlines

The CEO of Dubai Airports Corporation, Paul Griffiths, stated that 100 international airlines are currently operating at Dubai International Airport, indicating that this number has exceeded pre-pandemic levels, and that the number of destinations, in turn, has almost reached 2019 levels in light of many destinations. New ones, especially those launched by Fly Dubai.

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