THE AIRPORT PERSPECTIVE: United Arab Emirates

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by OAG Aviation from its OAG Analyser network analysis tool.

UAE DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Abu Dhabi International (AUH)

18

1,380

51.4 %

New Entrant

2

Ras Al Khaimah International (RKT)

4

680

25.3 %

New Entrant

3

Fujairah International (FJR)

8

400

14.9 %

New Entrant

4

Dubai International (DXB)

1

224

8.3 %

(-59.3) %

(Others)

-

-

-

(-100.0) %

TOTAL

31

2,684

-

174.7 %

HOME AIRPORT: UAE INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Dubai International (DXB)

2,936

743,348

73.3 %

12.4 %

2

Abu Dhabi International (AUH)

936

187,757

18.5 %

12.8 %

3

Sharjah International (SHJ)

488

77,685

7.7 %

5.5 %

4

Ras Al Khaimah International (RKT)

31

5,270

0.5 %

29.9 %

5

Al Ain (AAN)

2

330

0.0 %

(-75.1) %

(Others)

-

-

-

(-100.0) %

TOTAL

4,393

1,014,390

-

11.9 %

DESTINATION AIRPORT: UAE INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Doha International (DOH)

275

50,607

5.0 %

9.9 %

2

Kuwait International (KWI)

170

33,178

3.3 %

12.9 %

3

London Heathrow (LHR)

91

32,370

3.2 %

4.5 %

4

Bahrain International (BAH)

195

31,374

3.1 %

12.7 %

5

Jeddah King Abdulaziz International (JED)

116

28,075

2.8 %

30.5 %

6

Muscat International (MCT)

153

25,802

2.5 %

(-8.4) %

7

Riyadh King Khaled International (RUH)

118

25,546

2.5 %

41.8 %

8

Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji International (BOM)

126

24,798

2.4 %

16.5 %

9

Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International (BKK)

58

22,330

2.2 %

14.5 %

10

Karachi Quaid-e-azam International (KHI)

85

19,571

1.9 %

13.0 %

(Others)

3,006

720,739

71.1 %

11.4 %

TOTAL

4,393

1,014,390

-

11.9 %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…