Dubai airport passenger traffic up 11.7%
The airport - one of the world’s biggest – handled 5.68 million people in Feb.
Passenger traffic through Dubai’s main airport - one of the world’s biggest - rose 11.7 percent from a year earlier to 5.68 million people in February, the airport operator said on Tuesday.
Dubai Airports cited the expansion of the networks of home carriers flydubai and Emirates. In the first two months of this year, passenger traffic climbed 13.5 percent to 12.08 million people.
Freight volume rose 3.4 percent in February to 188,702 tonnes.
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