Dubai Airport Ranks as World’s Largest International Air Transport Hub with Over 5 Million Seats in May: OAG Report

Dubai International Airport recorded more than five million scheduled seats on departing international flights (10 million in each direction) this May, compared to 4.88 million seats in April last year, continuing leads the world’s airports as the largest center for international air transport, according to the monthly report issued by the « OAG, the international provider of airport and airline data , a copy of which was obtained by Emirates Today.

The Corporation confirmed the strong gains achieved by Dubai International Airport, stating that in May 2019 Dubai International Airport was the eighth busiest international airport in terms of capacity with 3.4 million seats. Five years later, in May 2024, Dubai International became the busiest international airport in the world with five million seats, an increase of 49%, compared to 2019.

For the fourth month, since the middle of last year, and the second since the beginning of 2024, the number of seats on flights at Dubai International Airport has exceeded the barrier of five million seats per month, at a time when the airport continues. to register strong growth rates, due to the increase in the number of flights, and the opening of more… From the new stations, as well as more airlines that operate to the airport and back.

The group said in its report that London Heathrow Airport was in second place, registering 4.2 million seats in May, 20% less than the capacity of Dubai International Airport, while Amsterdam Airport has advanced one place to become the third busiest international airport with 3.5 seats, an increase of 3% in the number of seats per day, compared to last month, followed by Singapore and Seoul airports in fourth and fifth place, with approximately 3.4 million seats each.

Dubai Airport continued its strong performance, second in the world in total seat capacity on “international and domestic” flights, after the American “Hartsfield Atlanta” Airport, which registered 5.4 million registered seats this May, and Japan’s Tokyo Airport registered approximately 4.7 international and domestic flights came in third place, followed by Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, which registered 4.5 million seats in fourth place, and London Heathrow came in fifth with about 4.4 million seats, on local and international flights.

Dubai International Airport jumped from fifth place in the world to second place in the number of international and domestic passengers, in the list of the 10 busiest airports worldwide for the year 2023, according to the latest classification by the International Airports Council, maintaining its position as the largest airport in the world in terms of the number of international passengers for the year 10 in a row, during the year 2023. The airport saw a significant increase in the number of passengers in the year 2023, as the total number of passengers. the number of passengers grew by 31.7%, reaching around 87 million passengers.