Aviation Kuwait air traffic up 35% since 2014 By Chris Hamill-Stewart December 18, 2024, 4:27 PM Alamy via Reuters Kuwait International Airport has reported a rise in passengers since 2014 15.5m passengers in 2023 Freight traffic down The number of people using Kuwait International Airport increased by a third between 2014 and 2023, new data from Kuwait’s General Administration of Statistics shows. In 2023 15.5 million passengers came through the airport, up from 10.1 million nine years ago. Arriving and departing planes rose to almost 118,000, from 83,400 in 2014. Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest international airport, handled almost 87 million passengers in 2023, up from 70.4 million in 2014. While Kuwait’s Statistics Administration highlighted the damaging impact of Covid-19 on the country’s airline industry, it said that passengers flying via Kuwait International Airport in 2023 outstripped that of 2019 and any year before it. However, freight traffic has not recovered since the pandemic. In 2019 243,000 tons of freight moved in or out of the country’s international airport. In 2023 that figure had dropped to 211,000.
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