Dubai International Airport facts for kids
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Dubai International Airport
مطار دبي الدولي
Maṭār Dubayy al-Duwalī
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Government of Dubai | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Dubai Airports Company | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Dubai | ||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 62 ft / 19 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 25°15′10″N 055°21′52″E / 25.25278°N 55.36444°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | http://www.dubaiairports.ae/ | ||||||||||||||
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Location in United Arab Emirates
OMDB
Location in Asia
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Dubai International Airport (IATA: DXB, ICAO: OMDB) (Arabic: مطار دبي الدولي) is an international airport serving Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is a major airline hub in the Middle East, and is the main airport of Dubai. The airport is the main hub for Emirates. The airport consists of 3 terminals, named Terminal 1, 2, and 3. Emirates mainly uses Terminal 3.
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Terminals, airlines and destinations
Passenger flights
| Airlines | Destinations | Terminal |
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| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo | 1
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| African Express Airways | Berbera, Hargeisa, Mogadishu, Nairobi, Wajir | 1
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| Afriqiyah Airways | Tripoli | 1
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| Air Algérie | Algiers | 1
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| Air Blue | Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar | 1
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| Air China | Beijing-Capital | 1
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| Air France | Paris-Charles de Gaulle | 1
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| Air India | Chennai, Delhi, Cochin, Hyderabad, Kozhikode, Mumbai, Visakhapatnam | 1
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| Air India Express | Amritsar, Jaipur, Lucknow, Kochi, Kozhikode, Mangalore, Mumbai, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram, Tiruchirapalli | 2
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| Air Malta | Malta | 1
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| airBaltic | Seasonal: Riga | 1
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| Alexandria Airlines | Alexandria-El Nouzha | 2
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| Ariana Afghan Airlines | Jeddah, Kabul, Kandahar, Kuwait | 2
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| Arkefly | Seasonal: Amsterdam | 1
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| Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways |
Vienna | 1
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| Azerbaijan Airlines | Baku | 1
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| Belavia | Seasonal charter: Minsk-National | 1
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| Biman Bangladesh Airlines | Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet | 1
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| British Airways | London-Heathrow | 1
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| Caspian Airlines | Ahwaz, Tabriz, Imam Khomeini | 2
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| Cathay Pacific | Hong Kong, Jeddah | 1
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| Cebu Pacific | Manila | 1
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| China Eastern Airlines | Kunming, Shanghai-Pudong | 1
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| China Southern Airlines | Beijing-Capital, Guangzhou | 1
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| Daallo Airlines | Berbera, Djibouti | 1 |
| Delta Air Lines | Atlanta | 1
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| Djibouti Air | Djibouti | 1
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| EgyptAir | Alexandria-El Nouzha, Cairo | 1
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| Emirates | Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Adelaide, Ahmedabad, Algiers, Amman-Queen Alia, Amsterdam, Athens, Auckland, Baghdad, Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Basra, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Birmingham (UK), Boston, Brisbane, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Chennai, Christchurch, Clark, Colombo, Conakry, Copenhagen, Dakar, Dallas/Fort Worth, Dammam, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Dhaka, Dublin, Durban, Düsseldorf, Entebbe, Erbil, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow-International, Guangzhou, Hamburg, Harare, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Houston-Intercontinental, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kabul, Karachi, Khartoum, Kiev-Boryspil, Kochi, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Lahore, Larnaca, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Luanda, Lusaka, Lyon, Madrid, Mahé, Malé, Malta, Manchester (UK), Manila, Mauritius, Medina, Melbourne, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta, Newcastle, New York-JFK, Nice, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Perth, Peshawar, Phuket, Prague, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, San Francisco, Sana'a, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Seattle/Tacoma, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Sialkot, Singapore, St. Petersburg, Stockholm-Arlanda, Sydney, Taipei-Taoyuan, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tripoli, Thiruvananthapuram, Tokyo-Haneda , Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson, Tunis, Venice-Marco Polo, Vienna, Warsaw-Chopin, Washington–Dulles, Zürich | 3
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| Enter Air | Katowice, Warsaw-Chopin | 1
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| Eritrean Airlines | Asmara | 2
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| Ethiopian Airlines | Addis Ababa | 1
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| Euro-Asia Air | Atyrau | 2
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| Fars Air Qeshm | Asalouyeh, Bandar Abbas, Chah Bahar, Kish, Lar, Qeshm, Zahedan | 2
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| Finnair | Seasonal: Helsinki | 1
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| flydubai | Abha, Addis Ababa, Ahmedabad, Aleppo (temporarily suspended), Alexandria-Borg el Arab, Amman-Queen Alia, Ankara, Ashgabat, Baghdad, Bahrain, Baku, Basra, Beirut, Belgrade, Bishkek, Bucharest, Chișinău, Chittagong, Colombo, Dammam, Dhaka, Djibouti, Dnipro , Donetsk, Dushanbe, Erbil, Gassim, Hyderabad, Ha'il, Hambantota, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Jeddah, Juba, Kabul, Karachi, Kathmandu, Kazan, Kharkiv, Khartoum, Kiev-Boryspil, Kiev-Zhulyany, Kochi, Krasnodar, Kuwait, Lucknow, Malé, Medina, Mineralnye Vody, Multan, Muscat, Najaf, Odessa, Osh, Port Sudan, Riyadh, Rostov-on-Don, Salalah, Samara, Sana'a, Sialkot, Skopje, Sulaymaniyah, Tabuk, Ta'if, Tbilisi, Ufa, Volgograd, Yanbu, Yekaterinburg, Yerevan | 2
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| FlyGeorgia | Tbilisi | 1
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| Georgian Airways | Tbilisi | 1
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| Gryphon Airlines | Bagram, Kandahar, Kuwait, Ras al Khaimah | 2
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| Gulf Air | Bahrain | 1
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| I-Fly | Charter: Moscow-Vnukovo | 2
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| IndiGo | Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi, Mumbai, Thiruvananthapuram | 1
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| Iran Air | Bandar Abbas, Isfahan, Shiraz, Tehran-Imam Khomeini | 1
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| Iran Aseman Airlines | Abadan, Bandar Abbas, Bandar Lengeh, Bushehr, Gheshm, Lar, Mashhad, Shiraz, Kermanshah, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Zahedan | 2
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| Iraqi Airways | Baghdad, Basra, Erbil, Mosul, Najaf | 1
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| Jazeera Airways | Bahrain, Kuwait | 1
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| Jet Airways | Delhi, Mangalore, Mumbai | 1
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| Jordan Aviation | Amman-Queen Alia, Aqaba | 1
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| Jubba Airways | Djibouti, Hargeisa, Mogadishu | 2
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| Jupiter Airlines | Arbil, Baghdad, Basra | 2 |
| Kabo Air | Kano | 1
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| Kam Air | Kabul | 1
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| Kenya Airways | Hong Kong, Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta | 1
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| Kish Air | Isfahan, Kish, Khasab, Qeshm, Tabriz | 2
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| KLM | Amsterdam | 1
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| Korean Air | Seoul-Incheon | 1
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| Kurdistan Airlines | Arbil |
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| Kuwait Airways | Kuwait, Muscat | 1
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| Kyrgyzstan Aircompany | Bishkek | 2
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| Libyan Airlines | Benghazi, Tripoli (all temporarily suspended) | 1
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| Lufthansa | Frankfurt, Munich | 1
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| Mahan Air | Tehran-Imam Khomeini | 1
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| Malaysia Airlines | Kuala Lumpur | 1
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| MIAT Mongolian Airlines | Charter: Ulan Bator | 1
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| Middle East Airlines | Beirut | 1
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| Nas Air | Dammam, Jeddah, Riyadh | 1
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| Nasair | Asmara | 2
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| National Airlines | Bagram, Kabul | 1
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| Nordstar Airlines | Krasnoyarsk-Yemelyanovo Seasonal: St Petersburg |
1
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| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen Seasonal: Stockholm-Arlanda |
1
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| Oman Air | Beirut, Kuwait, Muscat, Salalah | 1
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| Pakistan International Airlines | Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar | 1
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| Pegasus Airlines | Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen | 1
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| Philippine Airlines operated by PAL Express |
Manila | 1
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| Qeshm Airlines | Qeshm, Tehran | 2 |
| Rossiya | Seasonal: St. Petersburg | 1
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| Royal Brunei Airlines | Bandar Seri Begawan, Jeddah, London-Heathrow | 1
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| Royal Jordanian | Amman-Queen Alia Seasonal: Aqaba, Muscat |
1
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| RwandAir | Kigali, Mombasa | 1
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| Safi Airways | Bagram, Kabul | 1
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| Saudia | Dammam, Jeddah, Madinah, Riyadh | 1
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| Shaheen Air International | Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar | 1
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| SpiceJet | Ahmedabad, Delhi, Kochi, Madurai, Mumbai | 1
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| S7 Airlines | Novosibirsk | 1
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| Singapore Airlines | Cairo, Singapore | 1
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| Somon Air | Dushanbe, Jeddah | 1
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| SriLankan Airlines | Colombo | 1
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| Sudan Airways | Doha, Khartoum | 1
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| Swiss International Air Lines | Muscat, Zürich | 1
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| Syrian Air | Damascus | 1
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| TAAG Angola Airlines | Luanda | 2
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| Taban Air | Mashhad | 2
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| TAROM | Bucharest-Henri Coandă | 1
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| Tatarstan Airlines | Kazan | 1
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| Thai Airways International | Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi | 1
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| Toumaï Air Tchad | N'djamena | 2
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| Transaero Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Vnukovo Seasonal: Novosibirsk , Tyumen, Omsk , Samara, St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg |
1
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| Transavia.com | Seasonal: Amsterdam | 2
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| Travel Service Hungary | Budapest | 2
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| TUIfly | Seasonal Hanover | 2 |
| Tunisair | Beirut, Tunis | 1
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| Turkish Airlines | Ankara, Istanbul-Ataturk | 1
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| Turkmenistan Airlines | Ashgabat | 2
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| Ukraine International Airlines | Kiev-Boryspil | 1
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| Ural Airlines | Chelyabinsk, Kazan, Krasnodar, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Ufa, Yekaterinburg | 1
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| Uzbekistan Airways | Tashkent | 1
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| Virgin Atlantic Airways | London-Heathrow | 1
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| Yemenia | Aden, Al Mukalla, Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta, Kuala Lumpur, Sana'a | 1 |
Terminal F (Cargo flights)
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Cargo Germany | Hahn
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| Air France Cargo | Paris-Charles de Gaulle
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| Al Rais Cargo |
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| Ariana Afghan Airlines | Kabul, Kandahar
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| British Airways World Cargo | Hong Kong, London-Stansted
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| British Gulf International Airlines | Baghdad
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| Cargo Plus Aviation |
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| Cathay Pacific Cargo | Hong Kong, Penang, Zaragoza
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| Coyne Airways | Baghdad, Bagram, Balad, Djibouti, Erbil, Kabul, Kandahar, Sana´a
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| Deccan 360 | Ahmedabad, Mumbai
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| Emirates SkyCargo | Accra, Almaty, Amsterdam, Erbil, Bagram, Bahrain, Campinas, Chennai, Dakar, Düsseldorf, Eldoret, Entebbe, Frankfurt, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Hanoi [begins 5 December 2012], Harare, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Kabul, Lagos, Lahore, Lilongwe, Lomé, Nairobi, Osaka-Kansai, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei-Taoyuan, Imam Khomeini, Zaragoza
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| Ethiopian Airlines | Addis Ababa
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| Expo Aviation | Colombo
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| Falcon Express Cargo Airlines | Bahrain, Doha, Jeddah, Lahore
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| FedEx Express | Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Chengdu, Hong Kong
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| Jett8 Airlines | Amsterdam, Singapore
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| Maximus Air Cargo | Lahore
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| Polar Air Cargo | Seoul-Incheon
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| Qatar Airways Cargo | Doha
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| Polet Cargo Airlines | Toulouse, Voronezh
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| Royal Airlines | Karachi
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| Royal Jordanian Cargo | Amman-Queen Alia
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| SAS Cargo Group | Gothenburg-Landvetter
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| Shaheen Air International Cargo | Karachi
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| Silk Way Airlines | Baku |
| Star Air Aviation | Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar
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| TAROM | Bucharest-Henri Coandă
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| TCS Couriers | Lahore
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| TNT Airways | Delhi, Liege
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| Turkish Airlines Cargo | Istanbul-Ataturk
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| UPS Airlines | Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Clark, Cologne/Bonn, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney |
VIP Pavillion
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Dubai Royal Air Wing | Worldwide |
Awards
- 2011 – Best Airport in Middle East of the Airport Service Quality Awards by Airports Council International and most improved airport in the Middle East.
Images for kids
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The airport's fire station and control tower seen from landside, constructed in early 1959
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The first jet aircraft to land on the new runway at Dubai Airport in 1965 was a Comet from Middle East Airlines.
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Air Astana Boeing 737-700 taxiing at Dubai International Airport in 2005
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Azerbaijan Airlines Boeing 707-300 parked at a remote stand at Dubai International Airport in 1995
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Aircraft parked at concourse C. Concourse C has a capacity of 33 million passengers.
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Emirates operations at Dubai International
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Aircraft parked at remote stands at DXB
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Aerial view of concourse B and C. Concourse A (not shown) is connected to Terminal 3 via Terminal 3 APM. Concourse D is also connected to Terminal 1 via Terminal 1 APM.
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Aircraft parked at Concourse C before most of Emirates' operations moved to Concourse B. Emirates took over operations of Concourse C in 2016 as all airlines operating from Concourse C moved to Concourse D.
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Outside DXB Terminal 1
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FlyDubai aircraft parked at Terminal 2 aircraft stands
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Interior of Terminal 3
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Exterior of Concourse B
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Dubai Royal Air Wing is the main airline operating from the VIP Pavilion.
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Aircraft stands at the cargo terminal
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Aircraft taxiing to runway 12L/30R
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The Emirates Flight Catering centre, which was expanded in 2007, is capable of producing 115,000 meals per day.
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Emirates Engineering Centre aircraft hangars at DXB
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Smart Gate immigration counters at Passport Control
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D 89 leading to Dubai Airport
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See also
In Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de Dubái para niños
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