It started from a low base granted, but an increase like that each year is pretty decent. It's improving, that's what matters. Next year's figures will be very interesting when we know how the Qatar airlines flights have done in their first year. I really hope Qatar sorts out it's differences with it's neighbours as it will be a real help having connections into other Gulf countries for so many people.
I'm curious about how the KLM flights are doing these days because the options for using it to return home from Dubai are nowhere near as good as it used to be a few years ago with some of the return legs having long stopovers in Paris, although I do know plenty of people still using it.
A connection into a USA hub would be good now.