Dubai Airports turns 60: More than a billion passengers and counting

Dubai Airports turns 60: More than a billion passengers and counting

Dubai Airports today marked the 60th anniversary of the official opening of Dubai International (DXB).Since opening on September 30, 1960, DXB has served 1.115 billion passengers travelling on more than 7.47 million flights connecting over 240 destinations in 95 countries across the globe.60 years of achievementHere are some of the firsts in the history of Dubai Airports:> It was the first airport in the Middle East to feature a gated terminal> It then had the largest Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower when Sheikh Rashid terminal opened in 2000> First to launch e-gates in 2002.> In 2008, it opened the largest airport terminal in the world (Terminal 3)> Three years later, it has the world's first concourse purpose-built for