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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joseph Krauss and Malak Harb

Traffic surges at Dubai airport but lags behind 2019 peak

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Traffic more than doubled last year at Dubai's airport, the world's busiest for international flights, but has yet to fully recover after the coronavirus pandemic, according to figures released Tuesday.

Even as the number of passengers has surged, the state-of-the-art airport in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates has avoided the travel chaos that rippled across North America and Europe last year, as it maintained capacity through the darkest days of the pandemic.

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