Emirates airports exceed the barrier of one billion passengers within 10 years

Statistics of the Federal Center for Competitiveness and Statistics revealed the registration of the air transport sector in the UAE, qualitative leaps and exceptional growth, with the total traffic of passengers through state airports during the period between 2015 and 2024 a billion passenger barrier, and the high total movement of the aircraft and the departure to more than 6.4 million movements.

The report of the report issued by the Federal Center for Competitiveness and Statistics showed that the state is ranked first in the world in the Air Transport Quality Index, and within the first 10 ranks globally in five indicators.

The center’s data showed the rise of passengers through state airports from 114.8 million passengers in 2015 to 147.8 million passengers in 2024, a growth of 28.7%, to the total movement of passengers that include arrivals, departures and transites, during the period from 2015 to 2024 more than a billion passengers, while the movement of the next and departing aircraft increased to exceed 800 thousand movement at the end of 2024, to a total The movement of next and departing aircraft during the past 10 years is more than 6.4 million movements.

According to the emirate, statistics for the movement of passengers in airports, according to the emirate, revealed that Dubai airports were acquired on the largest share of the movement of coming, departing and crossing passengers, during the past 10 years with about 782.2 million passengers, followed by Abu Dhabi airports with 200.5 million passengers, then Sharjah International Airport with 101.5 million passengers, then Ras Al Khaimah Airport with more than four million passengers, and Fujairah Airport with 118.1 thousand Traveler, in addition to 46.6 thousand passengers through other local airports.

The Minister of Economy and Tourism, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Authority of Civil Aviation, Abdullah bin Touq Al -Marri, said that the exceptional results achieved by the civil aviation sector in the UAE over the past 10 years confirm the success of the national policies, strategies and initiatives adopted by the state in light of the directives of our wise leadership, which are not satisfied with the supervision of future prospects, but also drawing its features and making its achievements.

He pointed out that these results contribute to consolidating the state’s position on the map of aviation and global travel, and reflects the effective contribution of this vital sector in supporting the growth of the national economy and enhancing its competitiveness.

For its part, the director of the Federal Center for Competitiveness and Statistics, Hanan Mansour Al -Ahly, said that the number of travelers received by the state airports exceeded the barrier of one billion passengers in 10 years, in addition to achieving more than 6.4 million air movements in the same period, and the advanced centers that the UAE has in various global competitiveness indicators linked to the aviation and air transport sector, representing the culmination of decades of hard work The condensed in light of a permanent follow -up to the development of this vital sector.