The number of passengers passing through Dubai International Airport, the world's fourth biggest international passenger hub, grew 7.8 percent during the first 11 months of the year to 46.28 million. The airport, which has a capacity of 60 million passengers annually, is just under four million passengers short of crossing the 50 million mark, airport officials said. Passenger traffic grew by 8.9 percent in November to 4,431,673, compared to 4,070,296 in the same month in 2010. GCC countries provided the largest increase in November (134,491), followed by South Asia (77,375), Russia and the CIS (69,786), and Western Europe (48,830). During the month, aircraft movements totalled 29,093, up 8.5 per cent from 26,823 in the same month of 2010. From January to November, the number of flights increased by six percent to 296,799, compared to 279,888 in the same period in 2010.
