Gulf hub city Dubai is pinning its hopes on a bright future as an aerotropolis by building the world’s largest airport at the recently inaugurated Maktoum International Airport linked by a 10-kilometre corridor to the Jebel Ali Free Zone, an economics workshop at the Dubai International Financial Centre heard today.
Chief operating officer at Dubai World Central, the free zone surrounding the new airport, Rashed Buqara’a said: ‘Maktoum International is already needed right now to meet air cargo capacity requirements for Dubai and will open for passengers in 2012.
‘Ultimately the new airport will be the biggest in the world handling 120 million passengers a year and 12 million tonnes of cargo. That compares with 47.2 million in 2010 (handled at the existing airport) and 2.27 million tonnes of cargo.’
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