Dubai International Airport, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has posted a 9.01% increase in passenger traffic and a 9.38% increase in freight traffic year-on-year traffic in 2008, despite the worldwide economic slump and a slowdown in global travel demand.

Air France-KLM, the world's biggest airline, and three other airlines have been sentenced to pay total fines of US $504 million for having conspired to fix prices of air cargo.