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Abu Dhabi Airport sees 32.3 per cent passenger rise

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Abu Dhabi International Airport

Traffic figures released last month by Abu Dhabi International Airport indicated that its growth rates continue to buck worldwide industry trends with sustained passenger growth of 32.3 per cent.
Traffic for November alone also showed significant growth over the same month in 2007, with a passenger increase of 27.4 per cent.
While UAE National Day and the Eid Al Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) holidays supported an increase in passenger loads over the November period there was, of course, a peaked increase due to Hajj pilgrim traffic to and from Saudi Arabia – this becoming a significant driver of passenger loads for the month.
During the Hajj period, Abu Dhabi International Airport handled a total of 14,784 Hajjes (pilgrims) which increased passenger traffic to Saudi Arabia by 34.5 per cent. This moved the Kingdom into the third most served market from Abu Dhabi, in November.
Total passenger movement for the trailing 12 months to the end of November saw the airport handle 8,928,622 passengers.
“The continued growth of the airport’s home airline, Etihad Airways, the nationalairline of the UAE, continues to be a significant driver in growing passenger traffic at Abu Dhabi International as well as increasing our efforts to increase frequencies and routes with other airlines,” said Rudy Vercelli, CEO of ADAC.
“While we have welcomed six new airlines to Abu Dhabi airports in this calendar year alone, we are also working closely with existing partner airlines – most recently, Singapore Airlines has announced an increase to a daily service between Abu Dhabi and Singapore, from March next year.”
In data released alongside the traffic figures, ADAC also released the top five most popular city destinations travelled from/to Abu Dhabi in November 2008 which were Doha (first), London, Cairo, Bahrain and Bangkok despite the airport closures.

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