Sunday 13 February 2011

India airs its affinity with Dubai - The Times of India

India courts Dubai like no other country when it comes to air travel.

An average of 18,000 passengers flew daily—incoming and outgoing—between India and Dubai last summer, putting the Arab emirate way ahead of Singapore, the UK, Thailand and Sri Lanka in terms of air passenger traffic. Dubai's airline, Emirates, was also the single largest international carrier operating to and from India during that same period of April to June. The one-way passenger load for Emirates last summer was 1.8 lakh flyers a month.

A combined average of 5,000 passengers flew from Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Hyderabad to Dubai last summer. London came in a poor second, with an average of only 2,500 flyers—50% less than the passenger traffic to Dubai—travelling daily from the four cities.

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