Dubai Airport is an
international airport serving
Dubai, the largest city of the
United Arab Emirates. It is a major aviation
hub in the Middle East, and is the main airport of Dubai. It is situated in the
Al Garhoud district, 4 km (2.5 mi) southeast of Dubai. The airport is operated by the
Department of Civil Aviation and is the home base of Dubai's international airline,
Emirates and
Emirates SkyCargo; the Emirates hub is the largest airline hub in the Middle East ; Emirates handles 60% of all passenger traffic, and accounts for 38% of all aircraft movements at the airport. Dubai Airport is also the base for
low-cost carrier, Flydubai. As of July 2010, there are over 6,000 weekly flights operated by 130 airlines to over 220 destinations across every continent except
Antarctica.
In 2010 the airport handled a record 47.2 million in passenger traffic, a 15.4% increase over the 2009 fiscal year. This made it the
13th busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic and the
4th busiest airport in the world by international passenger traffic. In addition to being an important passenger traffic hub, the airport was the
8th busiest cargo airport in world, handling 2.27 million tonnes of cargo in 2010, a 17.8% increase compared to 2009
- the total number of commercial aircraft movements was 292,662 in 2010.
