UAE: India Tops Dubai Airport Passenger Traffic Destinations

UAE: India Tops Dubai Airport Passenger Traffic Destinations

In spite of travel restrictions, the world's busiest airport for international traffic after retaining the title for the seventh consecutive year for annual traffic in 2020, Dubai International Airport (DXB), has welcomed 10.6 million passengers in the half of 2021, a year on year contraction of 40.9%.

Passengers' traffic volume-wise, India carries on to be the leading destination country in the first 6 months of 2021 with more than 1.9 million passengers. Pakistan came in second place with 700,074 passengers, followed by Russia (406,209) and Egypt (401,361).

Other destination countries of note include Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, and the US. The top three cities by traffic were Addis Ababa (354,804 pax), followed by Cairo (345,886 pax) and Moscow (344,175).