Dubai International Airport saw passenger numbers recover in the first half of 2021, with India as the top destination accounting for over 1.9 million passengers. Total passenger numbers reached 10.6 million in the first six months, down 40.9% year-over-year. Dubai Airport reopened Terminal 1 and Concourse D to facilitate increased traffic expected over the summer holidays from carriers like Emirates and flydubai serving over 160 destinations. Cargo volumes also increased, nearing 2019 levels in the second quarter with over 570,000 tonnes of freight. The airport expects very high passenger numbers in the coming weeks during summer holidays.

1. Dubai Airport recovers from
Covid pandemic on the
back of Indian passengers

2. India persevered to be Dubai International
Airport's top vacation spot us of a through
site visitors volume inside the first 1/2 of
2021 with passenger numbers exceeding
1.9 million (19 lakh), no matter travel
regulations due to COVID-19 affecting its
key supply markets.
The international's busiest airport for
worldwide tour clocked 10.6 million
passengers inside the first six months of
2021, Dubai Airports stated on
Wednesday.As it projected sturdy growth
for Dubai International (DXB) within the 2d
half of the year.
In anticipation of the robust recovery of
worldwide air tour, we commenced the
second one half on a excessive be aware
by re-establishing Terminal 1 and
Concourse D the home terminal for our 60

3. international carriers after 15 months of
hibernation to deal with the seasonal rush
of visitors over the summer time holidays,
said Paul Griffiths, CEO of Dubai Airports.
"This become critical to facilitate the
continued expansion of the route networks
of our domestic base vendors Emirates
and flydubai, whose joint community
presently spanning 168 destinations keeps
to grow, Griffiths stated.
India persisted to be the Dubai airport's top
destination us of a via visitors extent inside
the first half of with passenger numbers
exceeding 1.Nine million, accompanied by
Pakistan with seven hundred,074 clients,
Russia with 406,209, and Egypt (401,361),
Dubai Airports said in a press launch.
Other destination nations of note consist of
Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United

4. States. The top three cities via site visitors
had been Addis Ababa (354,804), followed
by using Cairo (345,886) and Moscow
(344,a hundred seventy five).
We have already witnessed a number of
our busiest weekends of the year in July,
and with major global occasions consisting
of the Dubai Expo 2020 and Dubai Airshow
2021 coated up for the months ahead, the
outlook for 2021 in phrases of passenger
numbers looks very promising, Griffiths
said.
He stated the United Kingdom's current
choice to move the UAE to the Amber list'
and the UAE's conditional lifting of journey
regulations for passengers returning from
four international locations in the Indian
subcontinent in addition to Nigeria and
Uganda will extensively improve DXB's
visitors.

5. According to the cutting-edge figures
issued through Airports Council
International (ACI), DXB remains the
sector's busiest airport for international
passengers after maintaining the name for
the 7th consecutive year for annual visitors
in 2020.
The airport holds a great lead over other
global airports and has nearly twice the
passenger traffic of the subsequent busiest
global hub within the Middle East, the click
launch said.
Dubai Airports records showed Dubai
airports passenger volumes inside the
second sector totalled four.Nine million,
taking the 1/2-yearly discern for the yr to
10.6 million, a 12 months on 12 months
contraction of 40.Nine in keeping with cent,
it stated.

6. DXB is currently serving sixty eight
consistent with cent of the destinations in
94 per cent of the countries on 70 in step
with cent of the airways as compared to
earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cargo persisted to outshine the passenger
phase in phrases of recovery with
shipment volumes nearing 2019 levels
within the 2nd area. DXB recorded
571,568 tonnes of freight inside the 2nd
quarter, propelling the primary 1/2 volumes
to one.1 million tonnes, a 12 months-on-12
months increase of 27.7 in line with cent.
It recorded a total of 99,392 flight actions
at some point of the primary 1/2, a
marginal yr on year increase of zero.9
according to cent because of a low base
as a consequence of the effect of the

7. partial suspension of operations from
March 25 to July 7 in 2020.
Dubai International Airport will see a big
spike in passenger site visitors inside the
coming days as greater than 1,000,000
passengers will travel among August 12
and 22, with day by day peaks averaging a
hundred,000 passengers for the duration
of weekends, The Khaleej Times stated.
In a announcement issued on Tuesday,
Dubai Airports said this can be the hub's
busiest weekend so far this year. It urged
guests to live abreast of the modern-day
tour regulations and plan their trips for a
clean tour enjoy.
The increase in passenger traffic is
attributed to summer time holidays when
families journey lower back to the UAE as
well as easing of tour regulations for

8. certain international locations by using the
UAE government, the record stated.
The UAE these days eased journey
regulations for inbound and transit
passengers from a few Asian and African
countries, inclusive of India.
"We are organized, and we are doing the
whole thing we can to make sure that
passengers have a secure and easy
experience at DXB," stated Essa Al
Shamsi, vice-president of terminal
operations at Dubai Airports.
"Considering that extent of passengers can
be drastically better within the arrivals
region all through this period, it's far
important that those assembly and greeting
arriving passengers do no longer congest
the road in the terminal forecourt and that
they select up their buddies and own family

9. in comfort through the use of the car park
or valet provider," Shamsi stated.