Abu Dhabi: A new fee will be in effect from July for passengers transiting or departing Abu dhabi airport.

The airport is introducing a Dh35 fee for passengers. Dubai and Sharjah airports had earlier introduced similar charges for passengers.

According to a report every passengers departing from Abu Dhabi’s airports will have to pay Dh35 as fee, however, transit passengers and children below two years of age will be exempted from the new fee. The fee will be applicable after June 30.

With a 9.5 per cent quarter-on-quarter increase in passenger traffic during the first quarter of 2016, Abu Dhabi International Airport has become region’s fastest growing travel hub.

As many as 6,044,025 passengers travelled through Abu Dhabi between January and March this year compared with 5,521,110 during the same period last year. The number of passengers traveling through Abu Dhabi in March 2016 jumped to over two million passengers, reaching 2,025,842, up 5.6 per cent from 1,917,939 in March 2015.