DIA crosses the 5 m mark
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Recent statistics for May 2014 report that Dubai International welcomed more than five million passengers. This is despite being reduced to a single runway as the airport’s two runways were consecutively closed for refurbishment.
Passenger numbers dipped 2.5% to 5,086,910 passengers in May 2014, down marginally from 5,218,832 passengers recorded in May 2013. This was achieved despite number of aircraft movements declining 26.6% to 22,856 movements in May 2014, down from the 31,121 movements recorded during the same month last year.
During the first five months of the year, passenger numbers rose 9.2% to 29,608,364, up from 27,124,195 passengers during 2013. Aircraft movements dropped 2.6% to 148,784 movements, down from 152,720 movements recorded in the first five months of 2013.
Many airlines deployed larger aircraft during runway closures, boosting average number of passengers per flight 22 per cent year on year in May to a record 228 passengers, up from 186 in May 2013.
Passenger traffic growth is expected to remain flat or marginally decline until the runway refurbishment programme is completed on 20 July. Regionally, during the period under review, Western Europe achieved highest increase in passenger numbers in May (+63,185), followed by North America (+50,954), Asia (+40,535) and Australasia (+8,799).
London overtook Mumbai as Dubai International’s busiest city destination in May with 3.3%. Doha, Jeddah and Kuwait rounded out the top five city destinations during the month.
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