UAE United Arab Emirates - Dubai International Airport ( DXB  - OMDB )                                              Website : www.dubaiairport.com

Dubai is a city best known of the seven emirates that make up the UAE federation. Although neither the largest nor the most populous city, is considered the economic capital and crossroads of the most impressive tourist sites by excess. To drain all the people who travel for tourism, business or goods to and from this great desert city, many flights are operated at various airports and the main the Dubai International Airport located a few kilometers from downtown to the east. DXB Airport consists of an impressive site consists of 4 terminals. T1, 3 and 4 in the new building is located west of the complex, the terminal 2 and the cargo center lie to them when in the east. Two parallel runways 12L-30R and 12R-30L share the traffic. The procedures for using these two tracks are alike every day. Arrivals are usually in the morning sweats 12L, 12R and departures until noon. Following the heating of the air above the desert and the cool air of the nearby sea, the wind shifted from south to north every day usually around noon and it was then that a change of direction use is observed. Arrivals are on the runway 30L and 30R departures. It was around 20h every day that the tracks 12 are used again until the next day. Traffic at night is very impressive and interesting, but it is frustrating to see this wealth of traffic with no chance to take pictures. At sunrise until 9am the traffic is composed almost exclusively of the Emirates fleet. 9 to 12 are the aircraft of the Middle East, of 12a 14h a second wave of planes from Emirates and 15h show a more varied, with Indian, Chinese, and many local cargo until the night. The national carrier Emirates made its impressive fleet of exclusive long-haul models including the smallest copy is an A330 is based, as Fly Dubai's new low-cost locally. Number of companies serve the airport alone, mostly from other emirates, but also the Persian Gulf basin. A very strong cargo business is registered with daily flights to the world with all kinds of different equipment which is full of surprises.
 
It is not allowed to take pictures of airplanes around the airport. We had to content ourselves with our reporting approach, move away and take pictures from the streets of downtown, where from the terrace of the hotel pool Seiraton Deira which is right next to the corridor approach 12 tracks.


Our trip started spotting 2 April 2011, we boarded the Turkish flight TK1938 BRU-IST (A321 TC-JMF) into Istanbul for four hours of transit to finally board the flight TK760 (A330-300 TC-JNJ) to Dubai arrived at 1:50AM. Direction the hotel for a short night before dedicating the day April 3, 2011 at spotting from the small village Mirdiff. The other days of the week were dedicated to a morning of spotting from the terrace of the hotel and the afternoon to many sightseeing of this beautiful city with a thousand faces high diversity. During our trip, we really have not had any luck with the weather elements with a sky laden with water vapor, but traffic was in turn above our expectations! The homecoming was to board the flight TK763 DXB-IST aboard an A321 TC-JMJ 9avril the early morning, and after a few hours spotter transit through the terminal window Istanbul we embarked aboard the A330-200 TC-JMG to Brussels. I'll let you discover the impressive crop of photos of traffic, a real pleasure for spotters!

Clic on the picture to see in 1024/750, all the pictures were token by Cedric Valence

03-04-2011 to 08-04-2011
D-AALA - B777-FZN Aero Logic	A9C-AC A320-214 Gulfair	A6-FDJ - B737-8KN Fly Dubai	A4O-EA - Embraer170-200 Oman Air

EP-MNG - A300-B4-603 Mahan Air	G-YMMI - B777-236ER British Airways	HZ-ASC - A320-214 Saudi Arabian	N750UP - B747-44AF UPS

S2-ADF - A310-325 Biman Bangladesh	A6-EFE - B777-F1H Emirates Sky Cargo	9K-AKC - A320-212 Kuwait Airways	A6-ERA - A340-541 Emirates

OO-THA - B747-4HAF TNT	S2-ACQ - DC10-30 Biman Bangladesh	OO-THC - B747-4HAF Emirates (TNT)	ST-ATB - A300-622R Sudan Airways

EC-KCX - MD83 Swift Air	EI-DZR - A320-212 Rossiya	EP-ASP - Fokker100 Iran Aseman Airlines	EP-IAG - B747-286 Iran Air

A9C-AA - A320-214 Gulfair	AP-BGP - A310-324ER PIA	AP-EDA - A320-214 Air Blue	B-KAI - B747-412BCF Cathay Pacific Cargo

A4O-BE - B737-81M Oman Air	A6-ECX - B777-36NER Emirates	A6-FCA - Beech1900 Falcon Express Cargo Airlines	A6-FDD - B737-8KN Fly Dubai

4R-ALD - A330-243 Srilankan	7O-ADR - A310-324 Yemenia	9K-CAJ - A320-214 Jazeera Airways	9V-SQE - B777-212ER Singapore Airlines

A6-ESF - B737-4Y0 Eastern Skyjets	A6-QFY - C130 United Arab Emirates	A6-JAK - B737-406 Global Jet	A7-ADD - A320-232 Qatar

A7-AEG - A330-302 Qatar	AP-BFT - B737-340 PIA	EP-ASB - B727-228 Iran Aseman	B-HLV - A330-343X Cathay Pacific

HZ-AKB - B777-268ER Saudi Arabian	JY-AYK - A321-231 Royal Jordanian	JY-JAP - B737-46B Jordan Aviation	JY-JAX - B737-322 Alnaser Airlines

EP-LCC - Fokker50 Kish Air	SET-AND - B777-2B5ER Ethiopian	EZ-A001 - B737-341 Turkmenistan	B-6078 - A330-243 China Southern

N325UP - B767-34AF UPS	N742WA - B747-412BDSF World Cargo	OH-LBT - B757-2Q8 Finnair	EP-QFB - Yak42 Fars Air Qeshm

SU-GDP - B777-36N Egyptair	UP-B3707 - B737-230 Djibouti Air	VP-BQY - A320-211 Ural Airlines	VQ-BCN - A320-214 Aeroflot

VT-AXN - B737-8HJ Air India Express	VT-JBQ - B737-85R Jet Airways	VT-PPA - A321-211 Air India	YA-TTC - A320-212 Safi Airways

YI-AQK - B737-7BD Iraqi Airways ex-Jet Tran Air	VT-AXQ - B737-8HJ Air India Express	VT-EPC - A320-231 Indian Airlines	A6-FDN - B737-8KN Fly Dubai

A6-EDK - A380-861 Emirates	D2-TEF - B777-2M2ER TAAG Angola Airlines	D-ABOK - B757-330 Condor	A6-EFE - B777-F1H Emirates Sky Cargo

A7-BAA - B777-3DZ Qatar	A6-ESE - B737-46J Rak Airways	VT-ESE - A320-231 Air India	A9C-BAW - A319-111 Bahrain Air

A6-FCZ - Fokker27F Falcon Express Cargo Airlines	A7-AEO - A330-302 Qatar	A9C-AJ - A320-214 Gulfair	A7-BAA - B777-3DZ Qatar

A6-QFY - C130 United Arab Emirates	A4O-BA - B737-8BK Oman Air	9K-AME - A300-605R Kuwait Airways	A7-ADE - A320-232 Qatar

4L-NAL - B737-2T5 Nas Air Eritrea	7O-ADR - A310-324 Yemenia	A6-EAF - A330-243 Emirates	A6-JUD - B737-306 Global Jet

A6-EMP - B777-31H Emirates	A6-FDL - B737-8KN Fly Dubai	A6-PHH - B737-3Q8 AVE	4R-MRC - A321-211 Mihin Lanka

A9C-KJ - A330-243 Gulfair	AP-BCD - B737-340 PIA	AP-BIW - B737 Iraqi	AP-EDA - A320-214 Air Blue

B-2422 - B747-4EVF Jade Cargo	B-HUQ - B747-467F Cathay Pacific Cargo	A6-ERD - A340-541 Emirates	D6-CAS - A320-214 Comoros Islands Airways

C-FJHQ - Dash7-103 United Nations	A6-ERT - A340-313X Emirates	A6-PHA - B737-2T4 AVE	AP-BGQ - A310-325 PIA

D-ACGB - B747-409BSF Air Cargo Germany	EC-LKI - B767-383FER TNT (Gestair)	EI-XLB - B747-446 Transaero	EK-82224 - MD8 Kish Air

EP-ICE - A300B4-203 Iran Air Cargo	EP-GOL - IL76TD Yas Air	EP-LCC - Fokker50 Kish Air	EP-QFB - Yak42 Fars Air Qeshm

EP-LCF - Fokker50 Kish Air	ET-ANN - B777-2B5ER Ethiopian	HA-FAB - Fokker27F Farnair	HZ-AIP - B747-368 Saudi Arabian

JY-JAX - B737-322 Alnaser Airlines	HZ-ASH - A321-231 Saudi Arabian	N287UP - MD11F UPS	OD-RMI - A321-231 MEA

S2-AFT - A310-325 Biman Bangladesh	SU-GDN - B777-36N Egyptair	UK31002 - A310-324 Uzbekistan Airways	UK31005 - A300-B4622R Uzbekistan Airways Cargo

UP-B3707 - B737-230 Djibouti Air	VP-BBR - B757-22L Azerbaijan Airlines	VT-AXD - B737-8Q8 Air India Express	YA-TTC - A320-212 Safi Airways

VT-AXN - B737-8HJ Air India Express	VT-AXT - B737-8HG Air India Express	YI-AQK - B737-7BD Iraqi Airways ex-Jet Tran Air	VT-JGP - B737-85R Jet Airways

A6-MDA - A300-D4-203F Midex	A6-MMM - B747-422 United Arab Emirates	A9C-AD - A320-214 Gulfair	EP-IAA - B747-SP86 Iran Air

ET-AJX - B757-260PCF Ethiopian Cargo	EP-IEB - A320-232 Iran Air	EY-538 B737-4Y0 Iraqi Airways	F-GUOC - B777-F28 Air France Cargo

G-VTOU - A340-642 Virgin Atlantic	Z-AEB - Embraer170-100 Saudi Arabian	N775SA - B777-FZB Thai Cargo  Southern Air	UR-BHJ - MD83 Caspian Airlines

VQ-BAO - B737-4Q8 Donavia

Back to Europe's map                                                                                           Back to Index