Dubai Airport Breaks A New World Record

By Aprille Muscara On Jan 28, 2015

Dubai International Airport (ia7mad/flickr)

Dubai International Airport has just announced its 2014 numbers, reporting a whopping 70.4 million passengers who transited through its vast international terminals last year.

Dubai International Airport panorama (Fransz Wart/flickr)

This officially makes DXB the busiest international airport in the world, overtaking London’s Heathrow, which reported 68.1 million international passengers in 2014.

Passengers in transit at Dubai International Airport (Riccardo Romano/flickr)

Meanwhile, Al Maktoum International Airport (Dubai World Central) reported moving more than 2.4 million tonnes of cargo in 2014, making it third in the world for cargo traffic after South Korea and Hong Kong.

By 2020, Dubai aims to service 100 million passengers annually while DWC aims to transport 4 million tonnes of cargo traffic per year.

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