Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, announced on Sunday (28) that his government has approved the final designs for a new passenger airport located 40 kilometers southwest of downtown Dubai, which will one day become the new home of Dubai. of Emirates Airline, with the capacity to handle up to 260 million passengers annually.
The new passenger terminals at Dubai World Central Airport (DWC) will have a whopping 400 boarding gates and cost 128 billion dirhams ($34.87 billion). Also known as Al Maktoum International Airport, the massive site opened in 2010 as a cargo airport, and a limited number of passenger flights began operating from a small passenger terminal in 2013.
The Dubai government originally planned to develop the airfield and transfer all operations from Dubai International Airport in the center of Al Garhoud neighborhood by 2025, but financing issues have delayed the project on several occasions.
On Sunday, Sheikh Mohammed did not set an exact timetable for the completion of the new passenger terminals, only stating that operations would be transferred from DXB to DWC over the next 10 years, with an initial capacity of 150 million passengers per year.
“We are building a new project for future generations, ensuring continuous and stable development for our children and their children in turn. Dubai will be the world’s airport, its port, its urban hub and its new global center.”commented Sheikh Mohammed. “As we build an entire city around the airport in Dubai South, the demand for housing for a million people will come. It will house the main companies in the logistics and air transport sectors in the world.”
Work at DWC was suspended indefinitely in 2019, but last year sources said the government had warned key stakeholders to prepare when the project received the go-ahead to resume.
The project will involve the construction of five new passenger terminals, which will consist of the main terminal building, which includes the main check-in hall and departure gates, connected to four smaller satellite terminals, connected by an automated people mover. and uninterrupted.
Five times the size of Dubai International Airport, the new terminal will enable a massive expansion of Emirates’ operations. The airfield will also increase Emirates’ capacity, more than doubling the number of runways from two to five parallel runways at DWC with quadruple independent operation.
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