DIA passenger growth touches 4.92mn in October
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Dubai International registered 4.92 million passengers in October, resulting in an increase of 14.3%.
The statistics were issues in the monthly traffic report by Dubai Airports. Passenger traffic in October totalled 4,923,246, up 14.3% from 4,307,817 recorded during the same month in 2011. Year to date traffic has climbed 13.5% to 47,488,586 compared to 41,855,561 recorded during the corresponding period last year.
Dubai Airports CEO Paul Griffiths said: “At this rate, we expect to exceed our initial forecast of 56.5 million passengers and should end the year at or around 57 million passengers.”
AGCC recorded the largest increase in total passenger numbers* in October (+189,991 passengers), followed by Western Europe (+148,945), the Indian subcontinent (+81,533 passengers), and Asia (+42,768 passengers). Contraction in traffic on Middle Eastern routes continued in October (-7,760) as a result of unrest in certain parts of the region.
The strongest markets in terms of percentage passenger growth were South America (+93.2%) driven by new Emirates airline’s operations to destinations there, followed by AGCC (28.2%), Russia and CIS (+25.7%), and Eastern Europe (+24.2%).
Aircraft movements in October rose 3.9% to 29,578 from 28,463 recorded during the same month in 2011. The year to date movements totalled 283,551, up 5.9% from 267,706 movements between January and October 2011.