Dubai Announces World's Largest Airport

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Dubai announces world's largest airport

Dubai, Nov 22 (UNI) Dubai has announced plans to build the world's
largest airport at a cost of 30 billion dirham that could handle 120
million passenger.

The Jebel Ali International Airport (JXB) would be of the combined size
of London's Heathrow and Chicago's O'Hare airports and would be ten
times bigger than Dubai International Airport.

Currently, London's Heathrow hold the first position with a capacity of
83.5 million passengers.

Dubai's Department of Civil Aviation yesterday launched the Jebel Ali
Airport City (JAAC), a 140 square kilometre development area where the
the airport would come up.

Announcing this during the ongoing Dubai air show, a civil aviation
official said the project would be able to serve Dubai's passenger and
cargo transportation needs until 2050 and beyond.

It will have at least six parallel runways and as many concourses
capable of handling 120 million passengers and more than 12 million
tonnes of cargo per year.

The project will be completed in phases, and the first aircraft will
land in the first quarter of 2007 on completion of phase one.

The project has a mixed-use environment comprising aviation, logistics,
commercial, residential, educational, recreational, technology and
entertainment components.

At the core of JAAC is Dubai Logistics City (DLC), a free zone for
businesses which provides logistics and multi-modal transport services
to the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council countries.

A model of it from the Dubai Airshow is he

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With Emirates ordering those 777s and A380s, imagine the people
going through this place.. and with the terminals separated off, they'd
have no choice but to use trams/subways. I'm thinking KDEN on steroids.

BL.
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Wow. 6 parallel runways. How are they going to name those?

esay - 24 L C R and 25 L C R or whatever direction it configures to

Having been through Dubai airport and gauging Emirates's current and
future expansion plans, I was wondering how the airline was going to
fit in the current airport. Well this is the answer. First time I've
read about it. Sounds very ambitious like the airline itself. Workers
from South Asia and Managers from Europe and North America are going to
have a field day over this one. Has construction already begun? The
first plane is going to land early 2007? May be they'll pull off
another construction feat in a ridiculously short period of time by
making the workers work ridiculously long hours.

Sounds like potential for a very large white elephant.



A Guy Called Tyketto wrote:

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[ Dubai gets it right, where Daley, the FAA, redtape, and ORD
fail. -Ed. ]

http://www.deepika.com/english/lates...sp?ncode=31426

Dubai announces world's largest airport

Dubai, Nov 22 (UNI) Dubai has announced plans to build the world's
largest airport at a cost of 30 billion dirham that could handle 120
million passenger.

The Jebel Ali International Airport (JXB) would be of the combined size
of London's Heathrow and Chicago's O'Hare airports and would be ten
times bigger than Dubai International Airport.

Currently, London's Heathrow hold the first position with a capacity of
83.5 million passengers.

Dubai's Department of Civil Aviation yesterday launched the Jebel Ali
Airport City (JAAC), a 140 square kilometre development area where the
the airport would come up.

Announcing this during the ongoing Dubai air show, a civil aviation
official said the project would be able to serve Dubai's passenger and
cargo transportation needs until 2050 and beyond.

It will have at least six parallel runways and as many concourses
capable of handling 120 million passengers and more than 12 million
tonnes of cargo per year.

The project will be completed in phases, and the first aircraft will
land in the first quarter of 2007 on completion of phase one.

The project has a mixed-use environment comprising aviation, logistics,
commercial, residential, educational, recreational, technology and
entertainment components.

At the core of JAAC is Dubai Logistics City (DLC), a free zone for
businesses which provides logistics and multi-modal transport services
to the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council countries.

A model of it from the Dubai Airshow is he

http://www.aspelund.org/images/dfs/1.jpg

With Emirates ordering those 777s and A380s, imagine the people
going through this place.. and with the terminals separated off, they'd
have no choice but to use trams/subways. I'm thinking KDEN on steroids.

BL.
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Frank F. Matthews wrote:

Dubai, Nov 22 (UNI) Dubai has announced plans to build the world's
largest airport at a cost of 30 billion dirham that could handle 120
million passenger.

Sounds like potential for a very large white elephant.

You can say this again. Who owns this ``Emirates'' outfit, anyway?
Some sheikh, I guess. Looks like typical nouveau-riche megalomania.
White elephant of an airport packed with white elephants of airplanes
(380s, that no sane airline has yet to order in any significant
quantity) next to a bunch of 100-story white elephant hotels in the
middle of nowhere.

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 03:10:05 GMT, "Frank F. Matthews"
wrote:

Sounds like potential for a very large white elephant.



Sounds more like planning for the future. Asia is the future for
economic growth, and most certainly for air travel. Dubai couldn't
have a better geographical location as a hub to cater for this and
other markets, at the same time rapidly developing as a destination in
it's own right. Already a major tourist destination for Europeans,
with many owning property there, from the rich and famous to average
middle class people. It is going to become one of the great world
cities, some say it is well on the way. But the primary job of the new
airport will be to cater for Emirates' runaway success, and by
building it now, before it is even really needed, Emirates and inded
Dubai will have the freedom to expand as market forces dictate, a
luxury that European and North American airlines don't have.


A Guy Called Tyketto wrote:

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Don't think the airport will be a white elephant. The airline certainly
is not! Emirates is providing connectivity between Europe and South
Asia, Far East Asia, Africa and Australia/New Zealand in a manner that
no other airline will be able to match in the near future (Qatar
Airways is trying though, and with some success). It is very popular
among most passengers on those routes and demand for Emirates services
keep going up. Their economy class service is one of the best but they
need to update their premium cabins. You certainly cannot call Dubai a
place in the middle of no where. Dubai is the most cosmopolitan and
vibrant commercial hub of the Middle East. Most residents are expats
from Europe and South Asia. Once Emirates has tweaked their product to
be consistly excellent across the board, the airline could potentially
put some European airlines out of business. It will certainly have a
monopoly on routes from Dubai to North America for some time to come.
No US carrier for instance can match Emirates' quality of service on
those routes.

On 30 Nov 2005 09:03:30 -0800, "Riaz" wrote:

Don't think the airport will be a white elephant. The airline certainly
is not! Emirates is providing connectivity between Europe and South
Asia, Far East Asia, Africa and Australia/New Zealand in a manner that
no other airline will be able to match in the near future

And additionally on routes between North America and South Asia and
even South East Asia, and also between Africa and Asia. Their
geographical location is unbeatable.


(Qatar
Airways is trying though, and with some success).

And Etihad is also getting on the bandwagon. Interestingly Abu Dhabi
is even being promoted in the UK now as the exclusive alternative for
those that consider Dubai has become too popular.

It is very popular
among most passengers on those routes and demand for Emirates services
keep going up. Their economy class service is one of the best but they
need to update their premium cabins.

Their premium products vary enormously. First class on the 345s is the
best in the world with it's private cabins, but Business class on the
330s and some 777s is relatively cramped compared with the
competition.


You certainly cannot call Dubai a
place in the middle of no where. Dubai is the most cosmopolitan and
vibrant commercial hub of the Middle East. Most residents are expats
from Europe and South Asia. Once Emirates has tweaked their product to
be consistly excellent across the board, the airline could potentially
put some European airlines out of business. It will certainly have a
monopoly on routes from Dubai to North America for some time to come.
No US carrier for instance can match Emirates' quality of service on
those routes.

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Riaz wrote:

Emirates is providing connectivity between Europe and South
Asia, Far East Asia, Africa and Australia/New Zealand in a manner that
no other airline will be able to match in the near future

Boeing has midsize airplanes now that are capable of flying any of
these routes nonstop. Hub-and-spoke systems, such as the one operated
by the Emirates, are on their way out, which is why 777 and 787 are
successful, while A380 will be a mega-flop. Soon one will be able to
fly nonstop from any large airport in Europe to any city in Asia or
even Australia - no need for stopovers in Dubai or anywhere else.

Of course, there will always be a market for cut-rate fares for poor
vacationers who are willing to endure stopovers and connections just to
save a couple hundred bucks. But the real market - long-haul business
travelers - will prefer nonstop flights.

Dubai is the most cosmopolitan and
vibrant commercial hub of the Middle East.

If you measure vibrancy by shopping per capita...
Then the Mall of America is even more vibrant than Dubai.

Dubai has no industry, no natural or cultural attractions, just a
bunch of shops (for tourists whose idea of a good vacation is a trip
to a giant shopping mall), hotels with gold-plated toilets (for the
European chavs with more money than sense and their Arab equivalents),
and low taxes for expats who would live on the Moon as long as they
have satellite TV and can avoid paying their fair share.

Once Emirates has tweaked their product to
be consistly excellent across the board, the airline could potentially
put some European airlines out of business. It will certainly have a
monopoly on routes from Dubai to North America for some time to come.
No US carrier for instance can match Emirates' quality of service on
those routes.

No US carrier even flies those routes. But if US airlines decided
to fly from the US to Dubai, they'd own these routes, Emirates or
no Emirates. Not because their service is better (it isn't), but
because they provide better connections within the US, more convenient
schedules for US-originating flights, and frequent flyer programs that
are more useful for US-based travelers.

At the end of the day, convenience will always trump the dubious
attractions of duty-free shopping.