Dubai International Airport saw passenger traffic fall 31.3% in the first half of the year, its operator said on Wednesday, as the Iran war heavily disrupted traffic across the Gulf including at the busy international travel hub.
Reuters – DXB welcomed 13 million passengers in the second quarter, bringing the traffic in the first six months of the year to 31.5 million, Dubai Airports said in a statement. That compared to 46 million passengers in the same period a year earlier.
Aircraft movements totalled 150,600 during the first half, down 32.1% year on year, it added.
The conflict, which started on February 28, has thrown the aviation sector into turmoil this year, with flights cancelled, rescheduled and rerouted and the fallout reaching well beyond the Gulf as soaring jet fuel prices weighed on airlines globally.
