Dubai International Airport has begun the New Year with a bang as it smashed its own passenger record with more than 5.5 million people travelling through the airport in January 2013.
Passenger traffic rose 14.6% to 5,559,760 in January 2013, up from 4,852,139 in the same month in 2012, according to Dubai Airport’s traffic report, while aircraft movements totalled 31,332 in January 2013, climbing 5.6% from the 29,680 recorded in January 2012, as reported in Gulf News.
“January’s record passenger numbers confirm that the growth trajectory recorded last year has continued into 2013 and Dubai Airports has taken another steady stride towards the 98 million passengers a year we expect to pass through our airport by the end of the decade,” said Dubai Airports chief executive Paul Griffiths.
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According to Dubai Airport the GCC is currently the world’s second fastest growing travel market at 21.8%, just behind South America at 23.7% growth. The Middle East as a whole however, was the only region to record fewer total visitors from last year (-6.5%) with numbers reportedly influenced by the continuing political instability in countries such as Iran and Syria.
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