London Heathrow (LHR) is no longer the world’s busiest airport for international passenger traffic, that distinction now belongs to Dubai (DXB) according to new data from the Airports Council International which excludes all domestic traffic from its rankings. Dubai International’s press team has been speculating on their #1 ranking for months and now the numbers confirm it. Even with only one operating runway for 80 days, 68.9 million passengers passed through DXB over the 12 months ending in September of 2014, compared with 67.8 million at Heathrow. Atlanta (ATL) was still the “world’s busiest airport” by quite a margin when domestic flights are included in the calculation.
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