Dubai is going to build the largest Airport in the World by endorsing a total investment of $US32 billion ($A35 billion) on the development plan. The government of Dubai claimed that this would be the city’s second airport and the mega-est project in the history of World’s expansion of Airports! According to emirate's airport operator, “Middle East's brash commercial hub has found its way to uproot from recent economic downturn occurred in 2009."
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The solid approval is still in progress for adding a gigantic building that will augment the capacity progressively of the airport recognized as Al-Maktoum International at Dubai World Central. The backers envisaged that after successfully execution of expansion plan, the airport will cater above 200 million travelers on yearly basis.
The initial stage of the expansion plan is rooted in building a far reaching runway and enough terminal passage in order to serve 120 million traveler annually and 100 mammoth Airbus A380 double-decker aircrafts at any interval of day-night time.
At this time, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International is the world’s highly traffic airport, serving over 94.4 million passengers every year. Chief executive of state-backed airport operator Dubai Airports is anticipating to accomplish the first round of airport expansion within the next six to eight years.
This very round will comprised on building two long new runways, two public space housing, and series of tunnels to enter into aircraft’s gate. It is really a competitive task in a specified timeframe what the administration is intending to achieve in the Project’s first phase. Griffiths reported that, “I think that we have a track record here of doing remarkable things in a remarkably challenging time frame”.
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The time when all expansion rounds will be concluded, the updated airport will be able to make five equivalent runways that will broaden into large volume and all the runways will be operational and used simultaneously. For this reason, the airport will boast dozens of gates for huge array of wide-spread aircrafts.
The Dubai world central was mainly established for cargo flights in the year 2010 alongside a sole runway in the desert south of central Dubai. The airport got the chance to cater its first traveler in October via single terminal which were mainly exercised by local airlines and low-priced carriers.
Presently, Dubai’s airport is considered as the world’s seventh largest busiest airport, serving more than 66.4 million travelers in last year. According to expansion plan, the new concourse is likely to set up in upcoming year.
Griffiths further added that, “the expansion of airport is very much in favor of Dubai due to high growth of airline traffic across the emirates”. The major proportion of increasing airline traffic comes from homeland of airline Emirates, the region's largest fleet and the world's leading user of A380 and Boeing 777 long-haul aircrafts.
Emirates is mapping out to shift their headquarter to the new airport before long right after the first round come to an end, while releasing the space in the older airfield where more than 100 airlines are already operating.