Traffic at Dubai's airport still under pre-pandemic levels even after doubling last year
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Airport traffic in Dubai still remains an issue and has yet to fully recover from the COVID pandemic, even after it doubled last year to 66 million passengers in 2022.
Over 66 million passengers moved through the airport, known as DXB, in 2022, up from 29.1 million in 2021, when global travel was still snarled by pandemic restrictions. But it remains well below the pre-pandemic milestone of 86.4 million logged in 2019.
Paul Griffiths, the airport's CEO, told The Associated Press that he expects traffic to return to pre-pandemic levels by the end of this year or early 2024, with a boost from China's easing of its "zero COVID" policies. The airport currently forecasts 78 million passengers in 2023.
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