(MENAFN- Bangladesh Monitor) Dubai International Airport has soared past London's Heathrow to become the world's busiest airport for international passenger traffic.
Dubai International has become the world's top hub for international travel, having 70m passengers compared to 70.5 million who passed through the facility last year. Last year was the second year in a row that Dubai Airport topped Heathrow.
Traffic at the airport for out-bound passengers also surged to 69.9 million overtaking Heathrow's 68.1 million, according to Airports Council International.
The title of "world's busiest airport" allows a city to swank its attractiveness to the global travellers.
"This historic milestone is the culmination of over five decades of double-digit average growth," said Dubai Airports chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum.
He expects that the number of travellers would surge again this year as the airport is boosting its annual capacity to 90m passengers this year with the launching of Concourse D - a new hall for arrivals and departures.
Dubai's other airport, Al-Maktoum International, started in 2013 and will be capable of handling 120m travellers when completed in 2022 - 40m more than Heathrow's current maximum. Eventually the mega-hub will cater for 240m passengers a year.
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