Dubai Airport passenger traffic up 7.5% in March

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Reuters: Passenger traffic through Dubai’s main airport, one of the world’s busiest, rose 7.5% from a year earlier to 6.29 million people in March, the airport operator said on Monday.

In the first three months of this year, passenger traffic at Dubai International increased 11.4% to 18.36 million people, driven by expansion in the networks of the Emirates and flydubai airlines, Dubai Airports said. Freight volume handled by the airport rose 6.7% in March to 228,154 tons, partly because of increasing strength in the world’s developed economies, Dubai Airports added. Three-month freight volume rose 5.0% to 613,876 tons. Growth in the airport’s operations is set to slow in the next two months as it plans to reduce the number of flights it handles by 26% during an 80-day period of construction work on its runways, starting from the beginning of May. Some of the traffic will be diverted to Dubai’s new Al Maktoum International Airport.

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