INTERNATIONAL 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 INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES FROM UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (non-stop departures)

Year

Departures

% Change

Available Seats

% Change

1982

21,770

3.0 %

5,109,154

6.8 %

1983

23,553

8.2 %

5,648,045

10.5 %

1984

23,613

0.3 %

5,790,930

2.5 %

1985

23,660

0.2 %

5,788,709

0.0 %

1986

23,903

1.0 %

5,659,489

(-2.2) %

1987

24,355

1.9 %

5,765,250

1.9 %

1988

26,737

9.8 %

6,335,303

9.9 %

1989

28,760

7.6 %

6,768,372

6.8 %

1990

30,862

7.3 %

7,047,975

4.1 %

1991

28,060

(-9.1) %

6,127,306

(-13.1) %

1992

34,366

22.5 %

7,528,463

22.9 %

1993

38,082

10.8 %

8,133,093

8.0 %

1994

41,665

9.4 %

8,709,083

7.1 %

1995

41,620

(-0.1) %

8,786,712

0.9 %

1996

43,181

3.8 %

8,929,341

1.6 %

1997

46,732

8.2 %

9,708,995

8.7 %

1998

51,599

10.4 %

10,814,500

11.4 %

1999

58,492

13.4 %

11,811,102

9.2 %

2000

63,933

9.3 %

13,153,760

11.4 %

2001

66,313

3.7 %

13,953,332

6.1 %

2002

65,320

(-1.5) %

14,248,529

2.1 %

2003

76,248

16.7 %

16,532,708

16.0 %

2004

91,287

19.7 %

19,455,263

17.7 %

2005

100,994

10.6 %

21,723,564

11.7 %

2006

114,615

13.5 %

25,304,087

16.5 %

2007

129,304

12.8 %

29,049,738

14.8 %

2008

151,388

17.1 %

33,588,913

15.6 %

2009

171,506

13.3 %

38,302,292

14.0 %

2010

191,820

11.8 %

42,740,488

11.6 %

2011

206,341

7.6 %

46,209,466

8.1 %

2012

225,541

9.3 %

51,537,511

11.5 %

Richard Maslen

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