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People walk with their baggage trolleys near the entrance to the Emirates Airlines departures terminal at Dubai International Airport February 6, 2012. REUTERS/Jumana El Heloueh (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Tags: TRANSPORT SOCIETY)
DUBAI - Dubai International Airport (DXB), the world's busiest travel hub, saw a record 92 million travelers pass through its terminals last year, the Dubai ruler said in a post on X on Thursday, up around 6% from 2023 levels.
Dubai is the biggest tourism and trade hub in the Middle East. Its ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum last year approved a new 128 billion dirham ($34.85 billion) passenger terminal at Dubai's second airport, Al Maktoum International.
The airport will be the largest in the world, five times the size of DXB, with a capacity of up to 260 million passengers, the company said previously. All operations at Dubai airport will be transferred to Al Maktoum in the coming years.
(Reporting by Jana Choukeir and Federico Maccioni; Editing by Jason Neely and Jan Harvey)