Dubai airport’s passenger traffic reaches pre-pandemic levels

Dubai Worldwide Airport launched its quarterly passenger site visitors knowledge Thursday. 

The airport served 13.6 million passengers within the first quarter of 2022. This constituted a greater than 15% enhance from the 11.8 million passengers within the fourth quarter of 2021. This determine can be greater than double the 5.7 million passengers within the first quarter of 2021 and constitutes the airport’s largest quarter since 2020, Dubai Worldwide airport stated in a press launch. 

However, the quantity of cargo the airport obtained decreased 15.5% to 519,555 tons within the first quarter of 2022 from 614,834 tons within the earlier quarter. 

The next had been the airport’s prime nation locations: 

• India, 1.6 million passengers

• Saudi Arabia, 1.1 million passengers 

• Pakistan, 997,000 passengers 

• The UK, 934,000 passengers

The highest cities by way of passenger numbers had been as follows: 

• London, 617,000 passengers 

• Riyadh, 517,000 passengers 

• Jeddah, 337,000 passengers 

• Istanbul, 324,000 passengers 

Why it issues: The figures are one other instance of the air journey business within the United Arab Emirates recovering from the COVID-19 downturn. Abu Dhabi Airports additionally reported yesterday that its passenger site visitors has returned to pre-pandemic ranges. 

Airways within the UAE took main hits on account of coronavirus-related journey restrictions, with Dubai’s Emirates and Abu Dhabi’s Etihad each struggling main losses. Emirati officers stopped passenger flights fully for a number of weeks in 2020, and journey remained restricted to various levels properly into 2021.