DUBAI airport’s passenger traffic plunged by twothirds in March following Iran’s attacks on the United Arab Emirates during the Middle East war, the emirate’s media office said in a statement on Monday.
Traveller numbers at Dubai International, usually the world’s busiest for international passenger traffic, sank to 2.5 million, down 66 per cent year on year, Dubai Media Office said.
The airport endured “a period of regional disruption that significantly constrained airspace capacity and flight schedules”, it said.
“With airspace within the UAE now fully restored, Dubai Airports is moving decisively to scale up operations, increasing flight movements in line with available regional routing capacity.”
Dubai International was targeted several times by drones as the oil-rich UAE bore the brunt of Iran’s retaliation for US-Israeli strikes.
AFP
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