Dubai International Airport sets sights on new record of 91 million passengers in 2024

Dubai International Airport sets sights on new record of 91 million passengers in 2024

Dubai: Dubai International Airport remains on course to welcome 91 million passengers in 2024, and thus better its previous best numbers of 89.1 million recorded in 2018. The first three months of this year has already seen 23 million fliers use DXB and even the rains during April will not have much of an impact on full-year 2024 traffic.

“We have 250,000 passengers going through the airport every single day,” said Paul Griffiths, Dubai Airports’ CEO. “And over the year, I don’t think this (the rains in April) will have a significant impact because we’re back to normal operations.

“People are still arriving and departing as they would normally. A few days of disruption will disrupt numbers in the short term, but in the longer term, I don’t think we’ll have a particular problem.”

Soaring Q1-24 numbers

DXB will particularly look to its January to end March performance as setting the pace for the whole of 2024. The 23 million passengers recorded during the quarter represents an 8.4 per cent rise compared to last year. January was the busiest month, with 7.9 million passengers. The first quarter saw 109,238 in total flight movements, an 8.3 per cent increase year-on-year. (With