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2- Dubai's bold plan to build the world's biggest
AirportDUBAI, United Arab Emirates Dubai's
ruler has endorsed a 32 billion expansion plan
for the city's second airport that aims to make
it the world's biggest, the emirate's airport
operator said Monday in the latest sign that the
Middle East's brash commercial hub is determined
to move on from its 2009 financial crisis.
3- The approval sets in motion a vast building
project that will boost capacity exponentially at
the airport known as Al Maktoum International at
Dubai World Central. Backers envision it will
eventually handle more than 200 million
passengers per year.The first phase of the
expansion alone aims to build enough runway and
terminal space to handle 120 million passengers a
year and 100 mammoth Airbus A380 double-decker
jets at any given time.
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5- The world's busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson
Atlanta International Airport, handled 94.4
million people last year.Paul Griffiths, chief
executive of state-backed airport operator Dubai
Airports, said he aims to have the first phase of
the expansion complete in six to eight years.
That part of the project includes adding two new
runways and two large concourses housing dozens
of aircraft gates each.
6- "It's a very aggressive time scale ... but I
think that we have a track record here of doing
remarkable things in a remarkably challenging
time frame," Griffiths said in his office at the
city's main airport, Dubai International.As
later phases are completed, the new airport
eventually will boast five parallel runways
spaced far enough apart so they can all be used
at the same time, and have enough gates for
hundreds of wide-body planes.
7- Dubai World Central opened for cargo flights in
2010 with a single runway in the desert south of
central Dubai. It received its first passengers
in October at a single terminal that is mainly
used by smaller airlines and low-cost
carriers.The currently larger Dubai
International ranked as the world's seventh
busiest airport last year, handling 66.4 million
passengers. It too is being expanded, with a new
concourse expected to open next year.
8- Griffiths says Dubai needs to expand to keep pace
with the rapid growth of airline traffic into the
emirate. Much of the increase comes from hometown
airline Emirates, the region's largest carrier
and the world's biggest user of both the A380 and
Boeing 777 long-haul jets.Emirates is expected
to move its hub to the new airport shortly after
the first expansion phase is complete, freeing up
space in the older airport for the more than 100
other airlines that already operate from it.
9- Griffiths is confident Dubai will be able to
generate the funding needed to complete the
project given the importance of aviation to
Dubai's economy. Officials say the industry
contributes 22 billion annually to the local
economy and supports some 250,000 jobs."The
aviation sector has demonstrated that there is a
very compelling economic case to suggest creation
of further capacity is a very sensible thing to
do," Griffiths said. "I'm sure that the
government will come up with the appropriate
funding to make the project a reality."
10- Dubai still is recovering from the effects of its
financial crisis, which sent property prices
plunging and forced it to accept a
multibillion-dollar bailout from neighboring Abu
Dhabi.The local economy has bounced back
strongly since, though Dubai and its state-linked
companies still carry tens of billions of dollars
in debt. The International Monetary Fund has
warned of the possibility of another property
bubble forming, and analysts question how Dubai
can make good on the debt it still owes.
11- "There are still plenty of reasons to think that
the emirate's debt problems are far from over,"
Jason Tuvey, an analyst at London-based Capital
Economics, wrote in a research note last
week.That has not stopped officials from
announcing plans for headline-grabbing projects
reminiscent of the pre-crisis boom.
12- On Sunday, a property development company
controlled by Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin
Rashid Al Maktoum laid out plans for a 2.7
billion theme park and resort complex near the
new airport and the site of the World Expo that
Dubai is due to host in 2020.The expansion of
the new airport is unlikely to be ready by the
time the Expo kicks off, Griffiths said.
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