DUBAI, June 3 — With major new airports emerging from the desert and aircraft orders rolling in, the resource-rich Gulf is raising its stake in an industry forecast to boom in...
Emirates airliners are seen on the tarmac in a general view of Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates January 13, 2021. Picture taken through a window. — Reuters picDUBAI, June 3 — With major new airports emerging from the desert and aircraft orders rolling in, the resource-rich Gulf is raising its stake in an industry forecast to boom in the decades ahead.
Dubai, which is already home to the world’s busiest airport by international traffic, has started work on an even larger airport which authorities say will handle up to 260 million passengers annually, which would be the biggest in the world.A short drive away, the United Arab Emirates’ capital Abu Dhabi opened a new terminal in November, while gas-rich Qatar has also been expanding Doha’s Hamad International Airport.
Emirates, Dubai’s state-owned carrier, with its large fleet of long-range, wide-body aircraft, epitomises the Gulf’s “hub and spoke” model in which a globe-spanning range of long-haul destinations are linked by connecting flights through Dubai. “There’s also a lot of incoming travel growth from Indonesia,” she said, referring to pilgrims heading to Saudi Arabia’s holy sites from the world’s biggest majority-Muslim country.According to Airbus, traffic between the Middle East and Asia is expected to increase three-fold by 2042, and more than double between the Middle East and Europe.
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