Dubai airport handles 89 million passengers in 2018, misses the goal

Dubai Airport Managing Director Paul Griffiths had told Reuters in February 2018 that double digit passenger growth could resume as early as this year, backed by closer ties between Emirates and aircraft dubai.

Dubai airport has been the world's busiest for international travelers since 2014 when it took the title from London's Heathrow, where passenger traffic increased by 2.7 percent to a total of 80 million passengers in 2018.

In December, Dubai passenger traffic fell by 1, 7 percent to 7.7 million passengers.

Dubai Airport has previously said it believes it can overcome Atlantic and Beijing airports to become the world's busiest in 2021[ads1].

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest, handled 98.6 million passengers in The first 11 months of 2018. It has yet to release annual figures.