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Interior view of Dubai International Airport

Dubai International Airport (IATA: DXB, ICAO: OMDB) (Arabic: مطار دبي الدولي) is the international airport serving Dubai, the largest city of the United Arab Emirates. An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ... The ICAO (IPA pronunciation: ) airport code or location indicator is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... Coordinates: , Emirate Government  - Emir Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Area [1]  - Metro 4,114 km² (1,588. ... The term above mean sea level (AMSL) refers to the elevation (on the ground) or altitude (in the air) of any object, relative to the average sea level. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... This article is about the unit of length. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... This article is about the unit of length. ... The term asphalt is often used as an abbreviation for asphalt concrete. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 263 KB) Dubai International Airport interior Author: User:Velela. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 263 KB) Dubai International Airport interior Author: User:Velela. ... An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ... The ICAO (IPA pronunciation: ) airport code or location indicator is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... Arabic redirects here. ... Coordinates: , Emirate Government  - Emir Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Area [1]  - Metro 4,114 km² (1,588. ...

The airport is a hub to Dubai's international airline, Emirates. The airport also serves as a secondary hub for the national carrier of Singapore, Singapore Airlines; the national carrier of Qatar, Qatar Airways; the Yemen based airline, Yemenia; the Kuwait-based Jazeera Airways, the national carrier of Jordan, Royal Jordanian as well as smaller passenger and cargo airlines which use the airport as a hub including Dolphin Air and Falcon Express Cargo Airlines. Airlines with secondary hubs at the airport include British Gulf International Airlines, Iran Aseman Airlines, DAS Air Cargo, Aero Asia, Air Blue, Iran Air, and African Express Airways. Emirates redirects here. ... Singapore Airlines Limited (Abbreviation: SIA; Chinese: ; pinyin: , abbreviated ; Malay: ; Tamil: ) (SGX: S55) is the national airline of Singapore. ... Qatar Airways (Arabic: القطرية) is the flag carrier airline of Qatar, based in Doha. ... Yemenia - Yemen Airways (Arabic: الخطوط الجوية اليمنية) is the national airline of Yemen, based in Sanaa. ... Jazeera Airways at Kuwait International Airport CEO Marwan Boodai & Airbus CEO Louis Gallois At The Paris Air Show 2007 Jazeera Airways is a low-fare airline based in Kuwait. ... Royal Jordanian Airlines (Arabic: الملكية الأردنية; transliterated: al-Malakiyah al-Orduniyah) is an airline based in Amman, Jordan, operating scheduled international services over four continents. ... Dolphin Air is an airline based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. ... Falcon Express Cargo Airlines is a cargo airline based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. ... British Gulf International Airlines is a cargo airline based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. ... Iran Aseman Airlines is an airline based in Tehran, Iran. ... DAS Air Cargo is Ugandan cargo airline based at Entebbe. ... Aero Asia International is a private airline based in Karachi, Pakistan. ... Airblue is a private airline based at Karachi, Pakistan. ... Iran Air is the flag carrier airline of Iran, based in Tehran. ... African Express Airways is an airline based in Nairobi, Kenya. ...

In 2006, the airport handled 28.7 million passengers and targets 33 million for the year 2007.^[1]

Dubai International Airport will be complemented by Dubai World Central International Airport, a new 140 km² airport that will help handle the influx of travelers well into the future. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Statistics

Dubai International Airport has experienced extreme growth in the number of passengers, total freight, and total aircraft movements over the past decade. From 1997 to 2006, the number of annual passengers increased by 316%.[1]

Expansion

The airport is currently undergoing a major expansion with the construction of Terminal 3 and new 60 meter (197 foot) wide and longer runway. This expansion will make the Airport fully Airbus A380 compatible. The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, four-engine airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus, an EADS subsidiary. ...

The airport will also undergo an expansion to allow two stations of the Green Line of the Dubai Metro to be built within the complex. One station will be constructed in Terminal 1 and the other in Terminal 3. The Metro system is not expected to be fully operational until 2010. The Dubai Metro The Dubai Metro will be a driverless, fully automated metro network under construction in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai. ...

Dubai's government has announced the construction of a new airport in Jebel Ali termed Dubai World Central International Airport. It is expected upon completion to be the fourth largest airport in the world by physical size, though not by passenger metrics. Construction is expected to finish by the year 2017. On completion, Dubai International Airport is expected to be able to accommodate up to 70 million passengers. Jebel Ali (جبل علي in Arabic) (also sometime written Mina Jabal Ali) is a port (Mina in Arabic) town, located thirty-five kilometres southwest of the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Airlines and destinations

Terminal 1

• Aer Lingus (Dublin) Ends March 2008
• African Express Airways (Nairobi)
• Air Astana (Almaty)
• Air Blue (Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar)
• Air Comores International (Moroni)
• Aero Asia International (Faisalabad, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Peshawar)
• Aeroflot-Don (Rostov, Sochi)
• Aerosvit Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil)
• Aerovista Gulf Express (Baghdad)
• Air Algérie (Algiers)
• Air China (Athens, Beijing)
• Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
• Air India (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi, Thiruvananthapuram)
  • Air India Express See Terminal 2
• Air Zimbabwe (Harare, Lilongwe, Lusaka)
• Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa)
• Aria Air (Bandar Abbas)
• Armavia (Yerevan)
• Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
• AVE.com (Baghdad, Basra, Djibouti, Yerevan)
• Azerbaijan Airlines (Baku)
• Batavia Air (Jakarta)
• Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Chittagong, Dhaka, London-Heathrow, Rome-Fumicino)
• British Airways (London-Heathrow)
• Cameroon Airlines (Douala)
• Caspian Airlines (Abadan, Ahwaz)
• Cathay Pacific (Bahrain, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Hong Kong, Mumbai)
• China Southern Airlines (Beijing, Lagos)
• Cyprus Airways (Bahrain, Larnaca)
• Daallo Airlines (Djibouti)
• Dagestan Airlines (Makhachkala)
• Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
• Donbass Eastern Ukranian Airlines (Donetsk)
• Eastern Sky Jets (Bagram, Kandahar)
• EgyptAir (Alexandria-Nozha, Cairo)
• Emirates (Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Ahmedabad, Alexandria-Borg, Amman, Athens, Auckland, Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Beijing, Beirut, Birmingham, Brisbane, Cape Town [pending], Cairo, Casablanca, Chennai, Christchurch, Colombo, Damascus, Damman, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Düsseldorf, Entebbe, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Houston-Intercontinental [begins 3 December 2007 [2]], Hyderabad, Islamabad, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jakarta, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Karachi, Khartoum, Kochi, Kolkata, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait City, Lagos, Lahore, Larnaca, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, Luqa, Male, Manchester, Manila, Mauritius, Melbourne, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nagoya-Centrair, Nairobi, New York-JFK, Newcastle, Nice, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Perth, Peshawar, Rome-Fiumicino, Riyadh, Sanaa, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Seoul-Incheon, Seychelles, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Sydney, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Thiruvanthapuram, Toronto-Pearson, Tripoli, Tunis, Venice, Vienna, Zürich)
• Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa, Mumbai)
• Eritrean Airlines (Asmara)
• Fars Air Qeshm (Qeshm, Tbilisi)
• Finnair (Helsinki) charter service only
• Georgian Airways (Tbilisi)
• Gulf Air (Bahrain, Muscat)
• GMG Airlines (Dhaka) [planned to launch in November 2007]
• Hainan Airlines (Beijing, Luanda)
• Hemus Air (Sofia)
• Indian (Hyderabad, Chennai, New Delhi, Jaipur, Kolkata)
• Iran Air (Bandar Abbas, Isfahan, Shiraz, Tehran-Imam Khomeini)
• Iran Aseman Airlines (Lar, Tehran)
• Iraqi Airways (Baghdad, Basra)
• Jat Airways (Belgrade, Larnaca)
• Jazeera Airways (Bahrain, Male, Delhi, Kochi, Kuwait, Mumbai, Muscat, Salalah, Larnaca)
• Jubba Airways (Aden, Bosaso, Djibouti, Hargesia, Mogadishu, Sana'a)
• Kam Air (Kabul)
• Kish Air (Gheshm)
• Kenya Airways (Guangzhou, Nairobi)
• KLM (Amsterdam)
• Korean Air (Seoul-Incheon)
• Kuwait Airways (Kuwait)
• Kyrgyzstan Air Company (Bishkek)
• Libyan Airlines (Benghazi, Tripoli)
• Livingston Airlines (Milan-Malpensa)
• Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich [seasonal])
• Malaysia Airlines (Beirut, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur)
• Middle East Airlines (Beirut)
• Mihin Lanka (Colombo)
• Nas Express (Jeddah, Riyadh)
• Nepal Airlines (Kathmandu)
• Olympic Airways (Athens, Kuwait)
• Oman Air (Beirut, Muscat)
• Pakistan International Airlines (Faisalabad, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta)
• Pamir Air (Kabul)
• Qatar Airways (Doha)
• Royal Brunei (Bandar Seri Begawan, London-Heathrow)
• Royal Jordanian (Amman)
• Royal Nepal Airlines (Kathmandu)
• Samara Airlines (Samara)
• Saudi Arabian Airlines (Dammam, Jeddah, Medinah, Riyadh)
• Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen) seasonal
• Shaheen Air (Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar)
• Siberia Airlines (Novosibirsk, Samara)
• Silverjet (London-Luton)
• S7 Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk)
• Singapore Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk, Moscow-Domodedovo, Singapore)
• SriLankan Airlines (Colombo, Kuwait)
• Sudan Airways (Doha, Khartoum)
• Swiss International Air Lines (Muscat, Zürich)
• Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus)
• TAROM (Bucharest-Otopeni)
• Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Chennai, Kuwait)
• Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)
• Travel Servis Airlines (Prague)
• Tunisair (Beirut, Tunis)
• Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
• Turkmenistan Airlines (Ashgabat)
• Ukraine International Airlines (Kiev)
• Ural Airlines (Ekaterinburg)
• Virgin Atlantic Airways (London-Heathrow)
• Viva Air (Pulkovo)
• Yemenia (Aden, Bahrain, Dhaka, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Riyan, Sana'a)

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Terminal 2

• Air India
  • Air India Express (Amritsar, Delhi, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mangalore, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram)
• Jupiter Airlines (Baghdad, Basrah, Erbil)
• Ariana Afghan Airlines (Jeddah, Kabul, Riyadh)
• Caspian Airlines (Ahwaz, Tabriz, Tehran-Imam Khomeini)
• Condor (Frankfurt) [seasonal]
• Mahan Airlines (Tehran-Imam Khomeini)

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Cargo airlines

• Air France Cargo
• Cathay Pacific
• DAS Air Cargo
• EVA Air Cargo
• Emirates SkyCargo
• Falcon Express Cargo Airlines
• FedEx Express
• Jett8 Airlines Cargo
• KLM Cargo
• Malaysia Airlines Kargo (MASkargo)
• Polar Air Cargo
• Qatar Airways Cargo
• Royal Airlines
• Royal Jordanian Cargo
• Scandinavian Airlines System
• Shaheen Air International
• Singapore Airlines Cargo
• Star Air
• TAROM Cargo
• Thai Airways International (operated by Focus Air Cargo)
• UPS

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Incidents

• On 3 July 1988, Iran Air Flight 655, which was on a Tehran-Bandar Abbas-Dubai route, was shot down by USS Vincennes between Bandar Abbas and Dubai. 290 people were killed in this incident.
• On 28 July 2001, a man named Djamel Beghal was arrested at Dubai International Airport while transferring from a flight from Pakistan to a flight to Europe. Beghal admitted to being part of the Paris embassy attack plot to UAE interrogators. The Al-Qaida suspect was taken to France, where he recanted parts of his statement. The plot was dismantled by French, Belgian, and Dutch authorities.
• Part of the airport's Terminal 3 collapsed on September 28, 2004 during the construction phase.
• On 17 February 2007, a Novair A330-200 made an emergency landing in an airport in the United Arab Emirates. The plane was flying from Phuket, Thailand to Copenhagen, Denmark with mainly Danish passengers. After takeoff from a scheduled intermediate landing in Dubai, the captain felt some strange vibrations in one of the engines and decided to shut it down. The landing went smoothly and no one was injured.
• 12 March 2007: Biman Bangladesh Airlines Flight BG006 (LHR-DXB-DAC), carrying 236 passengers and crew, the nose gear of the Airbus A310-300 collapsed while accelerating down the runway^[2]. Fourteen people suffered minor injuries in the accident at Dubai International Airport^[3]. The aircraft came to rest at the end of the runway and was evacuated, but crippled the only active runway and forced the airport to close for eight hours, affecting 71 flights^[4].
• Hijackings: 2 with a total of 1 fatality.

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See also

• Tourism in Dubai

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References

1. ^ http://www.dubaiairport.com/DIA/English/TopMenu/News+and+Press/Airport+News/DIA+registers+16.17+per+cent+growth+in+2006.htm
2. ^ Aviation Safety Network Report. Aviation Safety Network (2007-03-12).
3. ^ Dubai Jet Accident Injures 14. CNN (2007-03-12).
4. ^ Flight International 20-26 March 2007

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External links

• Official Site
• Airport information for OMDB at World Aero Data
• Project Information from Airport Technology