DIA targets 20m passengers in Q4
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Dubai International Airport is gearing up to welcome 20 million passengers in the last three months of the year, according to dnata, as reported by Gulf News.
“We would be expecting to see some pretty strong numbers during Christmas and New Year,” said Jon Conway, divisional senior vice president – UAE operations at dnata. The company expects to see 95,000 aircraft take off and land at the airport in the last quarter.
Dubai Airports, meanwhile, declined to comment on passenger statistics for the period, saying the airports body does not give out forecast for passenger numbers. Over the 10-day Eid break ending on 10 October, Conway said that dnata expected to handle 900,350 passengers across 5,124 flights at the airport, an increase of up to 20 extra flights per week compared to the last week of September.
In August, the airport handled more than 6.6 million passengers and, in the first eight months of the year, the airport handled 46,479,919 passengers.
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