DOMESTIC SKIES: 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.

SCHEDULED DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES IN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (non-stop departures)

Year

Departures

% Change

Available Seats

% Change

1982

1,772

5.9 %

341,084

25.1 %

1983

249

(-85.9) %

44,206

(-87.0) %

1984

76

(-69.5) %

12,353

(-72.1) %

1985

73

(-3.9) %

16,160

30.8 %

1986

251

243.8 %

48,183

198.2 %

1987

99

(-60.6) %

16,393

(-66.0) %

1988

146

47.5 %

24,996

52.5 %

1989

85

(-41.8) %

14,172

(-43.3) %

1990

203

138.8 %

35,692

151.8 %

1991

204

0.5 %

42,766

19.8 %

1992

2,651

1,199.5 %

210,399

392.0 %

1993

1,143

(-56.9) %

143,706

(-31.7) %

1994

922

(-19.3) %

182,298

26.9 %

1995

1,004

8.9 %

197,117

8.1 %

1996

1,030

2.6 %

211,974

7.5 %

1997

619

(-39.9) %

133,976

(-36.8) %

1998

795

28.4 %

136,002

1.5 %

1999

1,338

68.3 %

238,549

75.4 %

2000

2,910

117.5 %

445,632

86.8 %

2001

3,510

20.6 %

554,325

24.4 %

2002

2,718

(-22.6) %

373,593

(-32.6) %

2003

2,051

(-24.5) %

328,316

(-12.1) %

2004

1,960

(-4.4) %

275,699

(-16.0) %

2005

1,434

(-26.8) %

194,847

(-29.3) %

2006

15

(-99.0) %

2,416

(-98.8) %

2007

4

(-73.3) %

1,512

(-37.4) %

2008

12

200.0 %

2,460

62.7 %

2009

133

1,008.3 %

24,481

895.2 %

2010

72

(-45.9) %

14,761

(-39.7) %

2011

353

390.3 %

71,829

386.6 %

2012

400

13.3 %

69,469

(-3.3) %

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…