Terminal 3 Arrivals at Dubai Airport

Terminal 3 arrivals at Dubai Airport is for the exclusive use of Emirates Airlines where many flights from around the world arrive at Dubai Airport Emirates Terminal 3.

For live flight arrival information at Terminal 3 Dubai Airport visit our main arrivals page by using the navigation menu at the top of this page.

The baggage handling system at Dubai Airport Terminal 3 Arrivals is the largest system in the world with a capacity to handle 8,000 bags per hour. The baggage system at Terminal 3 Dubai Airport includes 21 screening injection points, 49 make-up carousels, 90 km of conveyor belts capable of handling 15,000 items per hour and 4,500 early baggage storage positions.

The Terminal 3 departures area at Dubai Airport consists of 126 check-in counters for economy class passengers and 36 for first and business class passengers. There are also 18 self service kiosks, 3 lounges for unaccompanied minors, 38 counters and 12 e-gates for Economy class passengers and 10 counters and 4 e-gates for First & Business class at immigration.

Dubai Airport Terminal 3 Arrivals

The Terminal 3 arrivals area at Dubai Airport contains 52 immigration counters, 14 baggage carousels, and 12 e-gates (Electronic Passport Control System) used at all entry points into the United Arab Emirates. There are also 4 baggage carousels for oversized luggage.

The Terminal 3 car park at Dubai International Airport includes 1,870 car spaces, 163 car rental spaces, 44 Emirates bus spaces, a check-in hall for baggage with an area of 4,500 m2 (48,000 sq ft), a mosque with an area 950 m2 (10,200 sq ft) and 18 check-in counters. The entire car park has a total area of 177,500 m2 (1,911,000 sq ft).

Below is a list of destinations which are served by Dubai Airport Terminal 3 Arrivals.

Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Ahmedabad, Amman, Amsterdam, Athens, Auckland, Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Basra, Beijing-Capital, Beirut, Birmingham, Brisbane, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Chennai, Christchurch, Colombo, Coimbatore, Copenhagen, Dakar, Damascus, Dammam, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Durban, Düsseldorf, Entebbe, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow-International, Guangzhou, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Houston-Intercontinental, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jakarta-Soekarno-Hatta, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Karachi, Khartoum, Kochi, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Lahore, Larnaca, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Luanda, Madrid, Mahé, Malé, Malta, Manchester, Manila, Mauritius, Medina, Melbourne, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nairobi, New York-JFK, Newcastle, Nice, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Perth, Peshawar, Prague, Riyadh, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Rome-Fiumicino, San Francisco, Sana’a, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Seoul-Incheon, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Sydney, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Thiruvananthapuram, Tokyo-Narita, Toronto-Pearson, Tripoli, Tunis, Venice-Marco Polo, Vienna, Zürich

Emirates

Terminal 3 at Dubai Airport which is partly underground is for the sole use of Emirates and has a capacity to handle approximately 45 million passengers. Emirates terminal 3 at Dubai International has 5 Airbus A380 gates at Concourse 2, and 18 gates at Concourse 3.

Dubai Terminal 3 is the 3rd largest building in the world by floor space, with over 1,185,000 m2 (293 acres) of space. A large part is located under the taxiway area and is directly connected to Concourse 2. The departure and arrival halls at Terminal 3 are 10 metres (33 ft) beneath the airport’s apron. Terminal three at Dubai Airport has been operational since 14th October 2008, and opened in 4 phases to avoid collapse of baggage handling and other IT systems.

The main building of Dubai Airport’s Terminal 3 contains 82 moving walkways, 97 escalators, 8 skytrains (4 each at Arrivals and Departures), 157 elevators, and 27 truck lifts.

The Terminal includes a multi level underground structure, first and business class lounges, restaurants, 180 check-in counters and 2,600 car-parking spaces and offers more than double the previous retail area of concourse 1.