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Concourse 3 at Dubai International Airport will be finished by 2011. A top official said the new airport will help boost the airlines passenger capacity from the originally planned 70 million to 80 million. The world’s largest airport is in Atlanta and has a passenger capacity of 80 million. CEO of Dubai Airports company said that phase one of the Dubai International and Dubai World Central Al-Maktoum…
Passenger traffic at Dubai International Airport reached 9.5 million during the first quarter of 2009. This is a 2% increase compared to the same period last year and makes it one of the ten busiest airports in the world in terms of its growth during this period. CEO of Dubai Airports said given the global economic situation and the double digit drop in passenger traffic these results are very positive. He…
The General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) says the new navigational system being implemented by the Abu Dhabi International Airport will boost airspace efficiency and decrease congested skies. Abu Dhabi International Airport is the first airport in the Middle East to use the new system, and airports in Dubai and elsewhere will follow. The new navigational system, called RNAV 1, decreases airspace corridors…
An official with the International Air Transport Association has strongly recommended a move to an “open skies” policy. Madji Sabri spoke at the Middle East Economic Digest Airport Projects 2009 conference said that the “open skies” policy would be helpful in bridging the gap between extra capacity and demand, which is currently slowing down. In the Middle East and North Africa, there are over 460,000 jobs in…
The first stage of the opening of the Dubai Central World Airport is being pushed back due to delays in construction, according to the airports CEO, Paul Griffiths. The Dubai Central Airport will be the world’s largest airport and is now scheduled to open in 2010, instead of year end 2009. Mr. Griffiths said the reason for the delay is because of factors “relating to the readiness of infrastructure and the…
Abu Dhabi International Airport has reported that passenger numbers are up 32.8% through the month of October compared to last year. If the trend continues, the aviation hub is hopeful of achieving its target of nine million passengers a year by the end of 2008. The airport has already served 7.5 million passengers in the first 10 months of this year. Source: www.ameinfo.com
Kuwait's fastets growing Airline ground handling company National Aviation Services (NAS) has won a bid to handle passengers and cargo at the Mumbai International Airport in Mumbai, India, for 10 years concession. The announcement was made at a press conference by the newly reorganized top management at NAS, led by Naji Al-Ajmi, President and CEO of NAS Global, Adel Al-Askar; Senior Vice-President of Governance…
Thales, a provider of mission-critical information systems for the aerospace, defence and security markets, plans to open a regional office at Abu Dhabi airport's new Business and Logistics Park. This comes in addition to Thale's recent announcement indicating the establishment of a regional service centre at the same location. This double move of two of its regional units is part of the agreement which recently…
November 17th will see three foreign companies signing contracts for commercial management of the international airports in Saudi Arabia at Riyadh, Dammam and Jeddah. Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence and Civil Aviation, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Civil Aviation Authority, will be present at the signing of the contracts. The contracts for…
Dubai Airports has officially launched the all new premier VIP terminal and executive travel facility at Dubai International- the Executive Flights Centre (EFC). The announcement was made by the CEO of Dubai Airports Paul Griffiths at a Press conference held on the sidelines of the Middle East Business Aviation (MEBA 2008) on Sunday. EFC terminal has its own dedicated immigration and customs sections — it is…
Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) will be investing more than Dhs200m to create additional facilities at the City Airport, the Emirate's new dedicated private jet airport. The corporate jet facility will soon have stand capacity of over 120 jets and there will be specific areas in hangers for the maintenance of different sized aircraft. Source: www.ameinfo.com
Speaking to Capitol Club, Dubai International Financial Centre on November 11, Paul Griffiths, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dubai Airports said that a brand new Terminal 4 was planned at the airport in addition to extensions to terminal 1, 2 and 3. “We have Dh290 million that will be spent over the next two years on terminals 1, 2 and 3, making sure they are running to full capacity,” Griffiths said. He…
Emirates Airlines will be shifting its entire capacity to the new Terminal 3 at the Dubai International Airport once the final phase of the terminal is launched on November 11. The airline said in a statement on November 5, that the fourth and final phase will launch Emirates flights to the Indian Subcontinent, East Asia and Australia. Source: Emirates Business 24/7
Travelers in transit need not be bored any longer . Thanks to a website www.timeintransit.com launched recently , travelers in transit at Middle East airports will be able to garner information on what to do while in transit . This website not only provides details of what travellers can do when transiting through Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Bahrain and Sharjah airports , but has teamed up with booking.com…
After nearly two decades in the making, Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport has finally been completed. It was in 1989 that Richard Rogers Partnership won the competition to design Terminal 5 at London Heathrow . Much has happened in the last 19 years. Firstly, Terminal 5 is now a Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners project, reflecting the changes that have happened to the practice. Meanwhile, the terminal…
Dubai International Airport's envious position as the region's best connection stands unrefuted as the passenger throughput crossed the nine-million mark in the first quarter this year registering a remarkable increase of 15.11 percent over the corresponding period in 2007. The airport handled a total of 9,341,270 passengers from January to March this year, as compared to 8,114,762 in the first quarter of…
