Dubai Airport Duty Free

We’ve all been in limbo for those long hours before being given the go ahead to jump aboard a plane. Whether it’s a long haul holiday making adventure, all expense paid business trip or a familiar annual family visit, there’s always a reason that something is delayed, someone is late or something needs cleaning. This invariably means that we pay the duty free section of the airport a little visit. “Just to have a look”.

Dubai Airport Duty Free
Dubai Airport Duty Free
Dubai Airport Duty Free
Dubai Airport Duty Free
Dubai Airport Duty Free
Dubai Airport Duty Free

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Dubai International Airport

Dubai International Airport (IATA: DXB, ICAO: OMDB) (Arabic: مطار دبي الدولي‎) is an international airport serving Dubai, the largest city of the United Arab Emirates. It is a major aviation hub in the Middle East, and is the main airport of Dubai. It is situated in the Al Garhoud district, 4 km (2.5 mi) southeast of Dubai. The airport is operated by the Department of Civil Aviation and is the home base of Dubai’s international airline, Emirates and Emirates SkyCargo; the Emirates hub is the largest airline hub in the Middle East and Africa; Emirates handles 60% of all passenger traffic, and accounts for 38% of all aircraft movements at the airport. Dubai Airport is also the base for low-cost carrier, Flydubai. As of June 2009, there over 5,600 weekly flights operated by nearly 100 airlines to over 200 destinations across all six continents.

The airport was the 15th busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic handling 40.9 million passengers in 2009. The airport was also the 6th busiest airport in the world by international passenger traffic. In addition to being an important passenger traffic hub, the airport is the 7th busiest cargo airport in world, handling 1.927 million tonnes of cargo in 2009, a 5.6% increase compared to 2008 and was also the 3rd busiest International freight traffic airport in world.

Dubai International Airport
Dubai International AirportThe new $4.5 billion Terminal 3 opened on 14 October 2008, and was built exclusively for the use of Emirates Airline. Concourse 3 is also part of Terminal 3, and is expected to be completed by 2011. It will be built exclusively for the Emirates Airbus A380. Terminal 3 added 1.5 km2 (0.58 sq mi) to the airport and is the single largest building in the world by floor space. Dubai International Airport will be complemented by Al Maktoum International Airport (Dubai World Central International Airport), a new 140 km2 (54 sq mi) airport that will help handle the influx of travellers well into the future. Information from wikipedia
Dubai International Airport
Dubai International Airport
Dubai International Airport
Dubai International AirportAccording to an article in Gulf News's Xpress: At a price of $4.5 billion, the terminal has taken 10 million cubic meters of soil (enough to fill 4,000 swimming pools), 33,000 tonnes of structural steel, and 450 tonnes of reinforcement to put the terminal together. It has 157 lifts, 97 escalators, 82 moving walkways and 27 truck lifts and eight "Sky Trains" that can handle 47 people each. Also, 8000 square meters of retail space has been added to the already existing 7000 square meters of the Dubai Duty Free shopping area.

This is the first phase of the 4-phase terminal that begins by operating 40 flights a day. When phase 4 opens in 2011, 269 flights are expected to depart from this terminal daily.

It has 30 self-check-in counters alongside 126 traditional check-in stations. Rumor is that you will even be able to check in from the terminal's car park!

Dubai International Airport currently handles 40 million passengers a year; this new terminal increases its capacity enough to accommodate the movement of another 20 million passengers annually.

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The airport handled 40.9 million passengers during the year, with nearly 3.82 million coming in December, Dubai Airports Co, which operates the emirate’s airport, said in a statement on Wednesday.

The increase in December marked the seventh consecutive double-digit rise in passenger traffic and the second highest monthly increase after September’s 19.5 percent climb.

Cargo volumes rose 5.6 perent in 2009, following a 26 percent jump in December. Full-year cargo volumes reached nearly 1.93 million tonnes compared to 1.82 million tonnes in 2008.

Dubai Airports Chief Executive Paul Griffiths reiterated that the airport’s passenger traffic will grow 13.6 percent this year to about 46 million passengers.

“It’s clear 2009 was a year of spectacular growth and we will continue to invest in the future to make sure that we are always able to accommodate more passengers, more flights,” Griffiths said.

“Dubai International has capacity for 60 million passengers per year, and that will increase to 75 million passengers when Concourse 3 is completed in 2012.”

Dubai Airport
Dubai Airport
Dubai Airport
Dubai Airport
Dubai Airport
Dubai Airport
Dubai Airport

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