Dubai Airports will lengthen its Crimson Carpet biometric fast-track service to arriving passengers at Dubai Worldwide Airport’s Terminal 3 throughout the subsequent two months, additional accelerating the transformation of the passenger journey on the world’s busiest airport.
The growth follows the success of the Crimson Carpet departure hall, which has reshaped passport management procedures by lowering processing occasions to seconds.
Majed Al Joker, Chief Working Officer at Dubai Airports stated that the Crimson Carpet service completes processing in as little as 6 seconds and as much as a most of 14 seconds.
Dubai Airports Crimson Carpet
He stated its significance lies not solely in serving particular person travellers however in permitting teams of eight to 10 passengers to cross by the sensible hall concurrently utilizing real-time biometric information processing.
The Crimson Carpet hall at Dubai Worldwide Airport is a first-of-its-kind sensible service enabling passengers to cross by passport management inside seconds, with out presenting any journey paperwork or stopping.
Al Joker stated: “We frequently work to reimagine the passenger journey by integrating expertise into operations and enhancing the effectivity and productiveness of journey procedures,” including that biometric applied sciences have performed a key position in reshaping processes by integrating, simplifying or eliminating a number of steps.
He famous that a lot of the event work takes place behind the scenes, together with using synthetic intelligence to find out plane positioning and rotation, assess plane traits and analyse operational information in actual time — enabling operations groups to make sooner and extra correct selections.
Al Joker stated the file outcomes achieved by Dubai Worldwide Airport within the third quarter, and for the reason that begin of the 12 months, mirror a totally built-in operational ecosystem constructed on effectivity, the One DXB group tradition and robust tourism and financial demand in Dubai and main world markets.
Biometric expertise
He confirmed that Dubai Airports expects robust visitors in December according to nationwide projections for a file season, highlighting that groups are totally ready with versatile operational plans to handle peak journey intervals, supported by intensive expertise in dealing with distinctive volumes and journey surges.
He stated fourth-quarter figures and year-end projections stay below evaluate, however Dubai Airports expects to surpass 95.2m passengers this 12 months.
On Al Maktoum Worldwide Airport, Al Joker stated operations have seen notable progress, dealing with round 910,000 passengers within the first half of the 12 months throughout greater than 20 airways, with expectations of reaching almost a million passengers by year-end.
He stated the brand new airport design is in its last phases, with tenders and partnerships prepared. He clarified that the prevailing terminal at present utilized by passengers shouldn’t be a part of the brand new airport, which shall be solely totally different in kind, scale, construction and capabilities.
Reflecting on the Dubai Airshow 2025, he stated the occasion continues to function a platform for experience alternate and the showcasing of improvements, together with next-generation air mobility options, electrical plane and vertical take-off plane.
He famous that Dubai Airports is taking part within the sustainability alliance alongside dnata, flydubai and different companions, with the goal of presenting sensible options for utilizing sustainable instruments in plane dealing with and growing reliance on renewable power throughout floor operations.
