Dubai International Airport

Dubai International Airport (IATA: DXB, ICAO: OMDB) (Arabic: مطار دبي الدولي) is the primary airport serving Dubai, United Arab Emirates and is the world's busiest airport by international passenger traffic. It is also the 3rd busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic, the 6th busiest cargo airport in world and the busiest hub for the Airbus A380. In 2015, DXB handled 78 million passengers, 2.51 million tonnes of cargo and registered 403,517 aircraft movements.

Dubai International is situated in the Al Garhoud district, 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) east of Dubai and spread over an area of 2,900 hectares (7,200 acres) of land. The airport is operated by the Dubai Airports Company and is the home base of Dubai's international airlines, Emirates and flydubai. The Emirates hub is the largest airline hub in the Middle East; Emirates handles around 65% of all passenger traffic and accounts for about 45% of all aircraft movements at the airport. Dubai Airport is also the base for low-cost carrier flydubai which handles 11.6% of passenger traffic at DXB. The airport consists of three terminals and has a total capacity of 75 million passengers annually. Terminal 3 is the second largest building in the world by floor space and the largest airport terminal in the world. As of January 2016, there are over 7,700 weekly flights operated by 140 airlines to over 270 destinations across all six inhabited continents.

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Bumper weekend in store as Dubai Sports Council hosts 28 competitions

Khaleejtimes 22 Nov 2023
The competitions of this League are scheduled on Friday, November 24 and Saturday, November 25, at Dubai International Stadium ... The Dubai Open ... The Dubai International Parachuting Championship.- Supplied photo. The Dubai Padel Cup will be held at the World Padel Academy in Al-;....
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Dubai Police Academy, Dubai Airports sign MoU

Gulf Today 18 Nov 2023
The International Centre for Security and Safety at the Dubai Police Academy (ICSS) and AI International Centre for Security and Safety (AIICSS) signed a memorandum of understanding with Dubai Airports Corporation on the sidelines of the Dubai Airshow 2023, held recently at DWC....
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Afghanistan needs help to build on Cricket World Cup success, Umar Gul says

Al Jazeera 10 Nov 2023
Gul, 41, says a huge amount of credit has to go to the former England batter for the improvement in fortunes of the international team, who play and train out of the ICC Academy in Dubai ... “They need to correct their domestic structure and increase the teams so that they have the potential to improve at international level.”....

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