Dubai nudging Hong Kong out as transit hub between Asia-Pacific and Europe | South China Morning Post:
"Expanding the passenger-handling capacity of Hong Kong's airport, which is expected to run out by 2018, with a third runway - due to be completed 10 years from now - will fail to restore the city's role as a transit hub for flights between Asia-Pacific and Europe, analysts say.
Middle Eastern airports are muscling in on that turf, and Hong Kong may increasingly have to rely on traffic from the mainland, both outbound and inbound, to maintain its status as an air travel hub, remarks by analysts and airport management suggest - although here, as well, it is facing growing competition.
While traffic at Hong Kong International Airport showed lukewarm growth of 6 per cent last year to nearly 60 million passengers, that at Dubai International Airport jumped 15.2 per cent to 66.4 million. Dubai overtook Hong Kong as the third-busiest international airport in 2012."
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