Dubai Internaitional Airport
| Dubai International Airport مطار دبي الدولي | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport teep | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Awner | Government of Dubai | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Dubai Airports Company | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Dubai, Unitit Arab Emirates | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Al Garhoud | ||||||||||||||
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| Time zone | UAE Staundart Time (UTC+04:00) | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 62 ft / 19 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 25°15′10″N 055°21′52″E / 25.25278°N 55.36444°ECoordinates: 25°15′10″N 055°21′52″E / 25.25278°N 55.36444°E | ||||||||||||||
| Wabsteid | www.dubaiairport.com | ||||||||||||||
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Dubai International Airport (IATA: DXB, ICAO: OMDB) (Arabic: مطار دبي الدولي) is a internaitional airport servin Dubai. It is a major airline hub in the Middle East, an is the main airport o Dubai.[3] It is situatit in the Al Garhoud destrict, 2.5 nautical mile (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) east[1] o Dubai.[4] The airport is operatit bi the Dubai Airports Company an is the hame base o Dubai's internaitional airlines, Emirates, FlyDubai an Emirates SkyCargo; the Emirates hub is the lairgest airline hub in the Middle East; Emirates handles 64 per cent o aw passenger traffec, an accoonts for aboot 50 per cent o aw aircraft muivements at the airport.[5]
Dubai Airport is spread ower a aurie o 8,500 acre (3,400 ha) o laund. In 2013 DXB handled a record 66.4 million in passenger traffec, a 15.2 per cent increase ower 2012.[6] This made it the 7t busiest airport in the warld bi passenger traffec[7] an the 2nt busiest airport in the warld bi internaitional passenger traffec.[8] In addeetion tae bein a important passenger traffec hub, the airport wis the 5t busiest cargo airport in warld, handlin 2.44 million tonnes o cargo in 2013.[9]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ a b United Arab Emirates AIP Archived 2013-12-30 at the Wayback Machine (login required)
- ↑ "Preliminary 2012 World Airport Traffic and Rankings". Aci.aero. Archived frae the original on 15 Mey 2020. Retrieved 29 Mairch 2013.
- ↑ "Massive Dubai airport may delay opening again". MSNBC. 2009. Retrieved 30 February 2009. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ "Dubai International Airport". World Airport Guide. Archived frae the original on 8 November 2006. Retrieved 12 August 2008.
- ↑ http://www.arabianbusiness.com/emirates-lose-272m-during-dubai-int-l-runway-closures-547042.html#.U1K87_ldXqM
- ↑ "Dubai Airport traffic up 15.2 pct in 2013, may soon pass Heathrow". Reuters. 29 Januar 2014. Archived frae the original on 3 Julie 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 2 Apryle 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
