Dubai International Airport
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Dubai International Airport (IATA: DXB, ICAO: OMDB) (Arabic: مطار دبي الدولي) is the international airport serving Dubai, the largest city of the United Arab Emirates.
The airport is a hub to Dubai's international airline, Emirates.
In 2006, the airport handled 28.7 million passengers and targets 33 million for the year 2007.[1]
Dubai International Airport will be complemented by Dubai World Central International Airport, a new 140 km² airport that will help handle the influx of travelers well into the future.
History and Terminals
Dubai International Airport was conceived in 1959, when Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum first ordered its construction. It was inaugurated in 1960 with DC-3 plane flights and was home to nine airlines. It is currently the main hub of the Dubai-owned airline, Emirates, and consists of two physically separate terminals (they are only accessible to each other via taxi). A third terminal, to be used exclusively by Emirates, is planned to open by the end of 2007.[2]
Statistics
Dubai International Airport has experienced extreme growth in the number of passengers, total freight, and total aircraft movements over the past decade. From 1997 to 2006, the number of annual passengers increased by 316%.[1]
| Year | Total Passengers | % Increase | Freight (tons) | Total Aircraft Movements |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 9,108,766 | 13.7% | 414,468 | 112,816 |
| 1998 | 9,732,202 | 6.8% | 431,777 | 123,352 |
| 1999 | 10,754,824 | 10.5% | 474,779 | 132,708 |
| 2000 | 12,320,660 | 14.6% | 562,591 | 141,281 |
| 2001 | 13,508,073 | 9.6% | 610,867 | 134,165 |
| 2002 | 15,973,391 | 18.3% | 764,193 | 148,334 |
| 2003 | 18,062,344 | 13.1% | 928,758 | 168,511 |
| 2004 | 21,711,883 | 13.7% | 1,111,647 | 195,820 |
| 2005 | 24,782,288 | 14.1% | 1,333,014 | 217,165 |
| 2006 | 28,788,726 | 16.2% | 1,410,963 | 237,258 |
Expansion
The Airport is currently undergoing a major expansion with the construction of Terminal 3 and new 60 meter wide and longer runway. This expansion will make the Airport fully Airbus A380 compatible.
The Airport will also undergo an expansion to allow two stations of the Green Line of the Dubai Metro to be built within the complex. One station will be constructed in Terminal 1 and the other in Terminal 3. The Metro system is not expected to be fully operational until 2010.
Dubai's government has announced the construction of a new airport in Jebal Ali termed Dubai World Central International Airport . It is expected upon completion to be the largest airport in the world by physical size, though not by passenger metrics. Construction is expected to finish by the year 2010.
Incidents
- On 3 July, 1988, Iran Air Flight 655, which was on a Tehran-Bandar Abbas-Dubai route, was shot down by USS Vincennes between Bandar Abbas and Dubai. 290 people were killed in this incident.
- On 28 July 2001, a man named Djamel Beghal was arrested at Dubai International Airport while transferring from a flight from Pakistan to a flight to Europe. Beghal admitted to being part of the Paris embassy attack plot to UAE interrogators. The Al-Qaida suspect was taken to France, where he recanted parts of his statement. The plot was dismantled by French, Belgian, and Dutch authorities.
- Part of the airport's Terminal 3 collapsed on September 28, 2004 during the construction phase.
- 12 March 2007: Biman Bangladesh Airlines Flight BG006 (LHR-DXB-DAC), carrying 236 passengers and crew, the nose gear of the Airbus A310-300 collapsed while accelerating down the runway[3]. Fourteen people suffered minor injuries in the accident at Dubai International Airport[4]. The aircraft came to rest at the end of the runway and was evacuated, but crippled the only active runway and forced the airport to close for eight hours, affecting 71 flights[5].
Airlines and destinations
Terminal 1
- Aer Lingus (Dublin)
- African Express Airways (Nairobi)
- Air Astana (Almaty)
- Air Blue (Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar)
- Air Comores International (Moroni)
- Aero Asia International (Faisalabad, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Peshawar)
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Aeroflot-Don (Sochi)
- Aerosvit Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil)
- Air Algérie (Algiers)
- Air China (Athens [begins September 1, 2007], Beijing)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air India (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Thiruvananthapuram)
- Air India Express (Amritsar, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram)
- Air Zimbabwe (Harare, Lilongwe, Lusaka)
- Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- Azerbaijan Airlines (Baku)
- Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Chittagong, Dhaka, London-Heathrow)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- Cameroon Airlines (Douala)
- Cathay Pacific (Bahrain, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Hong Kong, Mumbai)
- China Southern Airlines (Beijing, Lagos)
- Cyprus Airways (Bahrain, Larnaca)
- Daallo Airlines (Djibouti)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta) [begins June 1, 2007]
- EgyptAir (Alexandria-Nozha, Cairo)
- Emirates (Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Alexandria-Borg, Amman, Athens, Auckland, Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing, Beirut, Birmingham, Brisbane, Cairo, Casablanca, Chennai, Christchurch, Colombo, Damascus, Damman, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Düsseldorf, Entebbe, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Houston-Intercontinental [starts 3 December 2007 [2]], Hyderabad, Islamabad, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jakarta, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Karachi, Khartoum, Kochi, Kolkata, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait City, Lagos, Lahore, Larnaca, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, Luqa, Male, Manchester, Manila, Mauritius, Melbourne, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nagoya-Centrair, Nairobi, New York-JFK, Newcastle [begins September 1, 2007], Nice, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Perth, Peshawar, Rome-Fiumicino, Riyadh, Sanaa, São Paulo-Guarulhos [begins October 1, 2007] Seoul-Incheon, Seychelles, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Sydney, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Thiruvanthapuram, Tripoli, Tunis, Venice [begins July 1, 2007], Vienna, Zürich)
- Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa, Mumbai)
- Eritrean Airlines (Asmara)
- Finnair (Helsinki) charter service only
- Georgian Airways (Tbilisi)
- Gulf Air (Bahrain, Muscat)
- Indian (Hyderabad, Chennai, New Delhi, Jaipur, Kolkata)
- Iran Air (Bandar Abbas, Isfahan, Shiraz, Tehran-Imam Khomeini)
- Iraqi Airways (Baghdad)
- Jat Airways (Beirut, Belgrade)
- Jazeera Airways (Kuwait, Larnaca)
- Jubba Airways (Aden, Bosaso, Djibouti, Hargesia, Mogadishu, Sanaa)
- Kam Air (Kabul)
- Kenya Airways (Guangzhou, Nairobi)
- KLM (Amsterdam)
- Korean Air (Cairo, Seoul-Incheon)
- Kuwait Airways (Kuwait)
- Libyan Arab Airlines (Benghazi, Tripoli)
- Livingston Airlines (Milan-Malpensa)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich [seasonal])
- Malaysia Airlines (Beirut, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur)
- Middle East Airlines (Beirut)
- Olympic Airways (Athens, Kuwait)
- Oman Air (Beirut, Muscat)
- Pakistan International Airlines (Faisalabad, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta)
- Qatar Airways (Doha)
- Royal Brunei (Bandar Seri Begawan, London-Heathrow)
- Royal Jordanian (Amman)
- Royal Nepal Airlines (Kathmandu)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Dammam, Jeddah, Medinah, Riyadh)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen) [seasonal; starts November 1, 2007]
- Shaheen Air (Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar)
- S7 Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk)
- Singapore Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk, Moscow-Domodedovo, Singapore)
- Sri Lankan Airlines (Colombo, Kuwait)
- Sudan Airways (Doha, Khartoum)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Muscat, Zürich)
- Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus)
- TAROM (Bucharest-Otopeni)
- Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Chennai, Kuwait)
- Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- Tunisair (Beirut, Tunis)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
- Turkmenistan Airlines (Ashgabat)
- Virgin Atlantic Airways (London-Heathrow)
- Yemenia (Aden, Bahrain, Dhaka, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Riyan, Sanaa)
Terminal 2
- Ariana Afghan Airlines (Jeddah, Kabul, Riyadh)
- Armavia (Yerevan) (will move to Terminal 1 in June 2007) [3]
- Caspian Airlines (Ahwaz, Tabriz, Tehran-Imam Khomeini)
- Condor (Frankfurt) [seasonal]
- Mahan Airlines (Tehran-Imam Khomeini)
Cargo airlines
- Air France Cargo
- Cathay Pacific
- DAS Air Cargo
- EVA Air Cargo
- Emirates SkyCargo
- Falcon Express Cargo Airlines
- FedEx Express
- KLM Cargo
- Malaysia Airlines Kargo (MASkargo)
- Polar Air Cargo
- Qatar Airways Cargo
- Royal Airlines
- Scandinavian Airlines System
- Shaheen Air International
- Singapore Airlines Cargo
- Star Air
- TAROM Cargo
- Thai Airways International (operated by Focus Air Cargo)
- UPS
See also
External links
References
- ^ http://www.dubaiairport.com/DIA/English/TopMenu/News+and+Press/Airport+News/DIA+registers+16.17+per+cent+growth+in+2006.htm
- ^ http://www.dubaiairport.com/DIA/English/TopMenu/News+and+Press/Airport+News/DIA+Terminal+3+Concourse+2+to+be+ready+by+yearend.htm
- ^ "Aviation Safety Network Report". Aviation Safety Network. 2007-03-12.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameters:|1=and|2=(help) - ^ "Dubai Jet Accident Injures 14". CNN. 2007-03-12.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameters:|1=and|2=(help) - ^ Flight International 20-26 March 2007