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7 unusual facts about Dubai International Airport


Air China

Some international routes operate from Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Dubai, Hangzhou, Kunming and Xiamen.

Al Qusais

Terminal 2 of Dubai International Airport is two minutes drive from the Airport Free Zone metro station.

Dubai Chinatown

Dubai Chinatown is an 800-hectare development near Dubai International Airport; it includes a business district shaped like a dragon, its own great wall, and a forbidden city.

Somali Postal Service

Emirates Post's mail transit hub at the Dubai International Airport was then for a time used to forward mail from Somalia to the UAE and various Western destinations as well as to route mail destined for the country.

Sulaiman Al-Fahim

In 1998, when he was 21, his parents and younger brother were killed in a road traffic accident near Dubai Airport.

Umm Ramool

Umm Ramool is located in Deira in eastern Dubai and is bordered to the north by Dubai International Airport, to the east by Nad Shamma, to the west by Al Garhoud and to the south by Ras Al Khor.

Van's Aircraft RV-12

The airplane, painted in Emirates airline livery, is exhibited in the Emirates Engineering Centre at the Dubai International Airport and was displayed at the 2013 Dubai Airshow.


ExecuJet Aviation Group

There are over 60 aircraft worldwide available for charter through ExecuJet, with charter call centres in Zurich, London Cambridge, Cape Town, Dubai, Melbourne, Monterrey, Moscow, Johannesburg,


see also

Emirates SkyCargo

Emirates SkyCargo operates dedicated cargo flights to 20 destinations in 15 countries from Dubai International Airport, and through the Emirates network has access to additional 79 destinations.