Travellers are seen at the Emirates terminal at Dubai International Airport. Passenger traffic through Dubai’s main airport dropped 2.9% from a year earlier to 5.16mn people in July, as construction work temporarily reduced its capacity, operator Dubai Airports said yesterday. Dubai International, one of the world’s busiest airports, cut back flights by about 26% for a period of 80 days from May 1 as both its runways were in turn refurbished and upgraded. Normal service resumed on July 21. Passenger numbers rose 4.9% to 39.83mn people in the first seven months of the year.
