Close to 2m passengers to fly through Dubai Airport

Dubai International Airport (DXB) is anticipating heightened traffic during the week with more than 1.9 million passengers expected to pass through.

The busiest day for departures will be Friday, June 23 with more than 76,000 departing passengers while June 30 will be the busiest day for total traffic (departing, arriving, and connecting) with more than 262,000 customers.

Dubai Airports will augment staff levels and employ passenger flow monitoring technology that allows the airport, airlines, and control authorities to detect and deploy staff to areas of high passenger concentrations.

Further, the airport’s new smart gate service, which allows the use of Emirates ID cards upon arrival and departure, will reduce immigration transaction times to 10-15 seconds and alleviate congestion at immigration points.

“Due to the heavy passenger loads we want to remind passengers to give themselves a bit of extra time to get to and through the airport,” said Dubai Airports’ senior vice president of communication & reputation Anita Mehra.

Emirates is expecting more than 106,000 travellers to pass through Terminal 3 during the weekend and Eid period.