{"id":94691903,"date":"2011-02-28T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/dubai-international-airport-surpasses-frankfurt-as-world-s-fourth-busiest-hub\/"},"modified":"2011-02-28T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T15:43:00","slug":"dubai-international-airport-surpasses-frankfurt-as-world-s-fourth-busiest-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/dubai-international-airport-surpasses-frankfurt-as-world-s-fourth-busiest-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai International Airport Surpasses Frankfurt as World\u2019s Fourth Busiest Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/2\/Dubai_International_Airport.jpg\" alt=\"Passengers stream through Dubai International Airport (Image: \nWikimedia)\" title=\"Passengers stream through Dubai International Airport \n(Image: Wikimedia)\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>Dubai International was the world&#39;s fourth-busiest airport in 2010 <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnnual traffic results for 2010 showed Dubai International Airport squeaking past Frankfurt Airport as the world&rsquo;s fourth-busiest hub for international traffic.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDubai serves as the base of operations for Emirates Airline, the world&rsquo;s largest international airline by capacity while Frankfurt is home to Lufthansa, the world&rsquo;s second largest international carrier. Dubai beat out Frankfurt by about 7,000 passengers on the year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDubai&rsquo;s traffic growth is being spearheaded by Emirates, as the airline continues to add to its fleet at the rate of at least one wide-body aircraft per month.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe good news continued into the New Year for Dubai International as January traffic rose to over 4.25 million, a 10 percent increase compared to January 2010.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/business\/aviation\/dubai-flying-high-as-airport-edges-past-frankfurt-in-passenger-count\" target=\"_blank\"> The National <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dubai International was the world&#39;s fourth-busiest airport in 2010 &nbsp; Annual traffic results for 2010 showed Dubai International Airport squeaking past Frankfurt Airport as the world&rsquo;s fourth-busiest hub for international traffic. &nbsp; Dubai serves as the base of operations for Emirates Airline, the world&rsquo;s largest international airline by capacity while Frankfurt is home to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94691903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94691903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94691903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94691903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94691903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}