18,000 travel every day between Dubai and India

An average of 18,000 passengers flew daily between India and Dubai last summer, while Mumbai-Dubai sector is the most popular international route to and from India, according to India'S Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
With the high number of travellers, the emirate is way ahead of Singapore, the UK, Thailand and Sri Lanka in terms of air passenger traffic. Dubai's airline, Emirates, was also the single largest international carrier operating to and from India during that same period of April to June 2010. The one-way passenger load for Emirates last summer was 180,000 flyers a month, Times of India reported.
A combined average of 5,000 passengers flew from Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Hyderabad to Dubai last summer. London came in second, with an average of only 2,500 flyers--50 per cent less than the passenger traffic to Dubai--travelling daily from the four cities.
From April to June 2010, Emirates flew 548,000 passengers out of India followed by Jet Airways with 504,000 travellers. Air India by itself, that is AI-coded flights, carried 367,000 flyers. Air India beats Emirates only when its flyers are added to those of Indian and Air India Express.
14/02/11 Zawya

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Categories: Foreign Feb 2011