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Dubai International Airport
مطار دبي الدولي

IATA: DXB – ICAO: OMDB
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Department of Civil Aviation
Serves Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Elevation AMSL 62 ft / 19 m
Coordinates 25°15′10″N 055°21′52″E / 25.25278, 55.36444
Website www.dubaiairport.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
12L/30R 4,000 13,124 Asphalt
12R/30L
Closed		 4,000 13,124 Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft Movements 237,258
Passengers 28,788,726
Statistics from Dubai International Airport[1]

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. It is a major aviation hub in the Middle East, particularly in the Southeast Asian region, and is the main airport in Dubai.

It is operated by the Civil Aviation Authority of Dubai. As of June 2007, there are about 5,713 weekly flights operated by 81 airlines to over 210 cities in 73 countries. An important contributor to the Dubai economy, 13,000 people are employed at the airport. The airport accounts for over S$5.5 billion in output.

The airport is a hub to Dubai's international airline, Emirates. The airport also serves as a secondary hub for the national carrier of Singapore, Singapore Airlines; the national carrier of Qatar, Qatar Airways; the Yemen based airline, Yemenia; the Kuwait-based Jazeera Airways, as well as smaller passenger and cargo airlines which use the airport as a hub including Dolphin Air and Falcon Express Cargo Airlines. Airlines with secondary hubs at the airport include British Gulf International Airlines, Iran Aseman Airlines, DAS Air Cargo, Aero Asia, Air Blue, Iran Air and African Express Airways.

In 2006, the airport handled 28.7 million passengers and targets 33 million for the year 2007. The airport operates flights from Dubai to North America, Europe, Mexico, Caribbean, Central America, South America, East Asia, South West Asia, North Asia, Australasia, Middle East, and North Africa and South Africa.

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.

Incentives like the Air Hub Development Fund, first introduced in 2003, have proven effective in attracting airlines here. A new S$300 million fund to strengthen Dubai's hub status will start in 2007 when the S$510 million fund expires in 2006. The new S$5.75 billion Terminal 3 is scheduled to open in May 2008,[5] and Terminal 1 will be upgraded along the lines of the renovated Terminal 2, with the latter costing S$240 million. Dubai has been courting both premium and budget travellers with the opening of a commercially important persons.

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.

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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]

Statistics for Dubai International Airport
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

The airport was originally constructed by Costain and completed in 1960[2].

The airport is currently undergoing a major expansion with the construction of Terminal 3 and new 60 meter (197 foot) 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 Jebel Ali termed Dubai World Central International Airport. It is expected upon completion to be the fourth largest airport in the world by physical size, though not by passenger metrics. Construction is expected to finish by the year 2017. On completion, Dubai International Airport is expected to be able to accommodate up to 70 million passengers.

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  • 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-Qaeda 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.
  • On 17 February 2007, a Novair A330-200 made an emergency landing in an airport in the United Arab Emirates. The plane was flying from Phuket, Thailand to Copenhagen, Denmark with mainly Danish passengers. After takeoff from a scheduled intermediate landing in Dubai, the captain felt some strange vibrations in one of the engines and decided to shut it down. The landing went smoothly and no one was injured.
  • 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[5]. Fourteen people suffered minor injuries in the accident at Dubai International Airport[6]. 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[7].
  • Hijackings: 2 with a total of 1 fatality.

  1. ^ a b Facts and Figures
  2. ^ Costain: Did you know? - item 27
  3. ^ [www.gulf-daily-news.com/story.asp?Article=200808&Sn=bnew&IssueID=30248]
  4. ^ Emirates to Boost South African Footprint
  5. ^ Aviation Safety Network Report. Aviation Safety Network (2007-03-12).
  6. ^ Dubai Jet Accident Injures 14. CNN (2007-03-12).
  7. ^ Flight International 20-26 March 2007

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