Dubai International Airport

Dubai International Airport (IATA: DXB) is the main airport serving Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. It lies in the Al Garhoud district, 4.7 km east of the city centre, and covers about 2,900 hectares. It is the main hub of Emirates and the base of the low-cost carrier Flydubai.

Travel + Leisure readers ranked Dubai International No. 5 among international airports in the World's Best Awards in both 2025 and 2026. Its reader score was 88.38 in 2025 and 91.06 in 2026, and the 2025 list describes it as a WBA Hall of Fame honoree.

According to Wikipedia, DXB was the busiest airport in the world for international passengers in 2025 and the second-busiest overall, with more than 95.2 million passengers and over 454,000 aircraft movements. It has the most Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 movements of any airport, and its Terminal 3 is described as the largest airport terminal in the world. In July 2019 it installed the largest solar energy system of any airport in the region.

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