Dubai international Airport, also known as DXB, is continuing to grow at a record pace. The airport and its main airline (Emirates) have worked in a very effective manner to intercept the post covid soar in air travel demand. The airline and the airport have confirmed themselves as one of the most convenient travel solutions for passengers in consolidated markets but also for those in markets with growing demand.
Over 44 million Passengers Travelled from Dubai International in 2024’s first 6 months
44.9 million passengers, to be exact, is the total number of passengers that have travelled via Dubai International airport. That is an enormous number. It becomes even more impressive if you consider that it marks an 8% growth year over year from 2023. That growth goes hand in hand with the hometown carrier’s performance. Emirates supplies a large number of passengers and tourists to DXB and Dubai. They too have been having some strong convincing operational stats.
The Dubai Airport authority also gave us another interesting piece of data. Out of those 44.9 million passengers 9.3 transformed into visitors for the city of Dubai. That influx of visitors helped fuel further GDP growth for the city and the emirate. The overall Dubai GDP in Q1 aided by the many passengers arriving grew by 3.2% from the prior year.
DXB’s Most Important Markets
As usual Dubai International also announced the destinations that contributed the most to the traffic passing through the airport. Unsurprisingly India was the number one market for incoming and outgoing passengers. Over 6.1 million passengers travelled via DXB from and to India in 2024’s H1.
Behind India in the passenger traffic standings for DXB are:
- Saudi Arabia – 3.7 million passengers
- Pakistan – 2.9 million passengers
Other extremely important markets for Dubai are:
- USA – 1.7 million passengers
- Russia – 1.3 million passengers
- Germany – 1.3 million passengers
To wrap things up, there is one encouraging piece of data. There might be more growth on the horizon if traffic continues to pick up from China. Chinese travel demand has recovered to 90% of 2019 levels with more than 1 million passengers travelling via Dubai international airport and an 80% YoY growth. Overall forecast for 2024 is now 91.8 million passengers.