The investigation into the Emirates jet crash landing at Dubai International on August 3 will take two to three years to complete, the director general of the United Arab Emirates General Civil Aviation Authority said.
Passenger traffic through Dubai International Airport, the world's busiest for international travel, rose 6.1% from a year earlier to a record 7.73mn people in August, the airport's operator said on Monday.
Many flights between Doha and Dubai were cancelled on Wednesday due to the closure of Dubai International Airport following the crash-landing of Emirates flight EK521 from Thiruvananthapuram.
European planemaker Airbus should do a better job selling its A380 superjumbo, according to Emirates, the aircraft's biggest buyer and most vocal supporter within the airline industry.
Russian investigators on Monday were trying to restore the damaged cockpit voice recorder of a passenger jet which crashed at the weekend killing all 62 people onboard.
Investigators in southern Russia on Sunday were probing the causes of a flydubai passenger jet crash that killed all 62 people on board, as emergency workers at the site wrapped up the salvage operation.
All 62 people aboard a passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russia were killed when their plane crashed on its second attempt to land at Rostov-on-Don airport on Saturday, Russian officials said.
The chief executive of flydubai expects another difficult year for the low-cost carrier as tough economic conditions put pressure on yields.
