The Past, Present and Future of Aviation in Dubai - Airport Business

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The past, present and future of Dubai aviation47new routes out of Dubai: TokyoNarita, Amsterdam, Prague, Medina,Madrid and Dakar. The addition ofthe Japanese capital was notablefor being a much-anticipated routethat was finally enabled by theextension of the Japanese capitalairport’s second runway. To half ofthese new destinations – Amsterdam,Prague and Dakar – Emirates isthe only Gulf carrier to operate,showing how the airline maintainsits dominant status in the region.Other airlines double presenceEmirates’ large share of Dubai’s trafficdoes not, however, mean that it hasconsumed other airlines’ markets. Onthe contrary, growth at the airport asa whole has been even greater andairlines other than Emirates have morethan doubled their capacity in Dubaiduring the same ten-year period.In 2010, 108 scheduled airlinesserved Dubai non-stop from 186global destinations. Of these, 93– exactly half – were served byEmirates. The other locally basedscheduled passenger airline, thelow-cost carrier flydubai, has grownto a 7% share of Dubai’s availableseats since it launched operationsin June 2009 and by the end ofFebruary 2011 was already serving33 destinations. In the last year, thelow-cost airline has even addedmore seat capacity to Dubai than itsfull-service counterpart Emirates. 13of the airline’s routes are additionsto Dubai International Airport’snetwork, whereas the other 20 of itsroutes are operated in competitionwith other airlines. The destinationsadded by the airline are three SaudiArabian, three Egyptian, two Iraqiand two Syrian airports, all regionaldestinations, as well as Kathmandu inNepal and Ashgabat in Turkmenistan.Growth does, however, also comefrom foreign carriers. India’s KingfisherAirlines has more than trebled itsDubai capacity in the last year, as itadded daily Delhi and Mumbai servicesto its previous Bangalore route. Thisputs the airline among the airport’s top30. Notable new entrants in the lastflydubai’s expansion has brought low-cost competition to routes within the Gulf region. On flights toKuwait, which flydubai began operating at the end of March 2010, there are now seven airlines operating120 flights a week, 25 of which are operated by the Dubai-based low-cost carrier. Arriving on the firstflight, Jamal Al Hai, Dubai Airports’ SVP Strategy and Development (left), and Ghaith Al Ghaith, flydubai’sCEO (right), presented a gift to Bader Bou Taiban, Director General of Civil Aviation in Kuwait (centre).year include airberlin, which connectedDubai with the German capital Berlinin November, and Rwandair, which thesame month began operating a routeto Dubai from Kigali via Mombasa onthe Kenyan coast – the airline’s firstservice outside the African continent.Asian traffic dominates airportAn analysis of Dubai InternationalAirport’s route network showshow the Asian market dominateswith almost a third of the airport’stotal seat capacity, followed byflights within the Middle East andEurope both of which grow athigher rates. The fastest growth inthe last year – over 33% – does,however, come from the Americas,although these markets aregrowing from much lower levels.Further growth at the ratesexperienced in Dubai should seemore and more carriers discoverthe destination, increasing theairport’s status as a world hub.Cutting the ribbon for airberlin’s route between the German capital and Dubai were JoachimHunold, CEO, airberlin; Mohammed Ahmed Al Mahmood, UAE Ambassador to Germany; and RainerSchwarz, CEO, Berlin Airports. The November launch marked the first regular scheduled servicebetween the two cities since the East German airline InterFlug suspended operations in 1991.
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