{"id":53882,"date":"2016-04-19T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/abu-dhabi-airport-passenger-traffic-up-9-5\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:27:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:27:22","slug":"abu-dhabi-airport-passenger-traffic-up-9-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/abu-dhabi-airport-passenger-traffic-up-9-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi Airport passenger traffic up 9.5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Passenger traffic at the Abu Dhabi International Airport was up 9.5% in quarter one (Q1) this year from Q1 2015 to 6,044,025 passengers,&nbsp;<em>Emirates News Agency (WAM)<\/em>&nbsp;reported this Tuesday (19).<\/p>\n<p> Q1 aircraft traffic reached 42,204, up 1.5% from Q1 2015. &ldquo;Traffic rose over the first three months of 2016 between the UK, Thailand, the USA and several other countries,&rdquo;&nbsp;WAM&nbsp;quoted Abu Dhabi Airports chief operations officer Ahmad Al Haddabi as saying.<\/p>\n<p> He remarked that the UAE capital is a major layover hub. The top-five destinations in Q1 were Bangkok, Thailand; London, UK; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Doha, Qatar; and New Deli, India.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> Routes to India were the busiest in Q1, with over 1 million passengers, up 27% from Q1 2015. Routes to Italy saw the biggest growth in passenger traffic, at 62%. Etihad Airways, the Abu Dhabi-based airline, bought a 49% stake in Alitalia in 2014, and the two airlines sustain a codeshare agreement covering a wide array of flights.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> In March alone, the Abu Dhabi airport welcomed over 2 million passengers, up 5.6% from March 2015, according to&nbsp;WAM.<\/p>\n<p> *Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-180349\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The airport handled over 6 million passengers in the first quarter of 2016. Aircraft traffic increased by 1.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":180349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism"},"wps_subtitle":"The airport handled over 6 million passengers in the first quarter of 2016. Aircraft traffic increased by 1.5%.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}