Dubai International Airport pax up 10%, cargo up 3% in Jan-2017

Dubai International Airport reported (01-Mar-2017) Jan-2017 traffic grew 9.7% year-on-year to 8 million passengers. Eastern Europe remained the fastest expanding market, up 32.5%, followed by Asia (+26.4%), South America (+18.6%) and Australasia (+15.8%). Cargo volume increased 3.4% to 208,271 tonnes and aircraft movements increased 2.1% to 36,592 during the month. [more - original PR]