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Dubai International Airport (DXB), the world’s busiest travel hub, saw a record 92 million travellers pass through its terminals last year, the Dubai ruler said in a post on X on Thursday, January 30.
This is an increase of around 6 per cent from 2023 levels.
Dubai is the biggest tourism and trade hub in the Middle East. Last year, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, approved a new Dhs128bn ($34.85bn) passenger terminal at Dubai’s second airport, Al Maktoum International.
The airport will be the largest in the world, five times the size of DXB, with a capacity of up to 260 million passengers, the company said previously. All operations at Dubai Airport will be transferred to Al Maktoum in the coming years.