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Dubai International Airport ((アラビア語:مطار دبي الدولي)) is the primary airport serving Dubai, United Arab Emirates and is the world's busiest airport by international passenger traffic. It is also the 3rd busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Year to date )〕 the 6th busiest cargo airport in world〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Year to date )〕 and the busiest hub for the Airbus A380. In 2014, DXB handled 70.5 million passengers, 2.37 million tonnes of cargo and registered 357,339 aircraft movements.〔 Dubai International is situated in the Al Garhoud district, east〔 of Dubai and spread over an area of of land.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=World Airport Guide )〕 The airport is operated by the Dubai Airports Company and is the home base of Dubai's international airlines, Emirates and flydubai; the Emirates hub is the largest airline hub in the Middle East; Emirates now handles 64% of all passenger traffic and accounts for about 50% of all aircraft movements at the airport.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Emirates to lose $272m during Dubai Int'l runway closures )〕 Dubai Airport is also the base for low-cost carrier, flydubai which handles 10.7% of passenger traffic at DXB.〔(Largest international airline is worth US,1 billion Airport needs to add 100-million-passenger ). Eturbonews.com (28 July 2013). Retrieved on 16 August 2013.〕 The airport consists of three terminals and has a total capacity of 75 million passengers annually. Terminal 3 is the second largest building in the world by floor space and the largest airport terminal in the world. As of January 2015, there are over 8,000 weekly flights operated by 140 airlines to over 270 destinations across all six inhabited continents.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Page Not Found )〕 Dubai International is an important contributor to the Dubai economy, employing approximately 90,000 people, indirectly supports over 400,000 jobs and contributes over US$26.7 billion to the economy, which represents around 27 per cent of Dubai’s GDP and 21% of the employment in Dubai.〔http://khaleejtimes.ae/biz/inside.asp?xfile=/data/aviation/2014/December/aviation_December35.xml§ion=aviation〕 It is predicted that by 2020, the economic contribution of Dubai’s aviation sector will rise to 37.5% of the city's GDP and by 2030, the economic impact of aviation is projected to grow to $88.1 billion and support 1.95 million jobs in Dubai or 44.7% of the GDP and 35.1% of the total employment.〔〔http://english.alarabiya.net/en/business/aviation-and-transport/2014/11/17/Aviation-to-drive-37-of-Dubai-economy-by-2020-study-.html〕 ==History== The history of civil aviation in Dubai started in July 1937 when an air agreement was signed for a flying boat base for the aircraft of Imperial Airways with rental of the base at about 440 Rupees per month – this included the guards' wages. The Empire Flying Boats also started operating once a week flying east to Karachi and west to Southampton, England. By February 1938, there were four flying boats a week. In the 1940s flying from Dubai was by flying boats operated by British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), operating the ''Horseshoe'' line from Southern Africa via the Persian Gulf to Sydney.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dubai's First International Airport )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dubai International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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