Dubai International Airport is a major air facility in Dubai, a city in the United Arab Emirates. Its IATA Airport Code is DXB. Its ICAO Airport Code is OMDB.
The airport is a hub to the UAE's international airline, Emirates.
Because of the many stores in the airport, it is considered a major place to buy duty free goods in that country, which is in turn considered a duty free shopping haven.
Dubai International Airport was conceived in 1959, when His Highness, Sheik Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum first ordered construction. It was inaugurated in 1960 with DC-3 plane flights and was home to nine airlines. Today, the airport accepts all kinds of jets.
On 3 July, 1988, Iran Air Flight 655, which was on a Tehran-Bandar Abbas-Dubai route, was shot down by an American naval vessel on its second leg.
Other airlines that fly there are:
- Aero Asia
- Air Algerie
- Air France
- Air India
- Air Kazakstan
- Air Seychelles
- Austrian Airlines
- Azerbaijan Airlines
- Biman Bangladesh
- British Airways
- Cathay Pacific
- Condor
- Cyprus Airways
- Daallo
- Dragonair
- Egypt Air
- Emirates
- Ethiopian Airlines
- Falcon Express
- Finnair
- Gulf Air
- Indian Airlines
- Iran Air
- Jat Airways
- Kenya Airways
- Khaliffa
- KLM
- Kuwait Airways
- Lufthansa
- Mahan Airlines
- Malaysia Airlines
- Middle East Airlines
- Naft Airlines
- Oman Air
- Pakistan International Airlines
- Qatar Airways
- Royal Brunei
- Royal Jordanian
- Saudi Arabian Airlines
- Shaheen Air
- Siberian Airways
- Singapore Airlines
- Sri Lankan Airlines
- Swiss
- Syrian Arab Airlines
- Tarom
- Thavria Air Company
- Thai Airways
- Transaero
- Transportes Aereos Portugueses
- Turkish Airlines
- Vietnam Airlines
- Yemenia