Work set to start on $34.8bn Al Maktoum Airport expansion
CONSTRUCTION NEWS
HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, today (April 28) approved the designs of the new passenger terminal at Al Maktoum International Airport and ordered the immediate start of work on the expansion of the building at a total cost of AED128 billion ($34.8 billion).
Almost five times the size of Dubai International Airport, the airport will include 400 aircraft gates and five parallel runways. On completion, it will be the world's largest with a capacity to handle 260 million passengers.
The move, which comes as part of the Dubai Aviation Corporation’s strategy, will see all operations of Dubai International Airport get transferred to the new facility in the coming years.
"With the use of new technologies for the first time in the aviation sector, we are preparing for a new phase in the growth of the global aviation sector. We are preparing for a phase in which Dubai leads the international aviation sector for the next forty years," remarked Sheikh Mohammed.
"We are also building an entire airport city in Dubai South, which will raise the demand for housing for one million people... and will include the most important companies in the world in the logistics and air transport sector," he added.-TradeArabia News Service
