Monday, Oct 26, 2015

Dubai

Dubai is doing more than simply just building the world’s largest airports, His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, declared on Monday.

It is creating “the aviation capital of the world,” His Highness said in tweet a day after Emirates celebrated its 30th anniversary on Sunday.

Shaikh Mohammed took to Twitter on Monday to announce plans to grow Dubai’s aviation sector has beyond physical infrastructure that has seen the emirate develop the world’s largest airline on international routes, Emirates, and the busiest airport for international passengers, Dubai International.

“Yesterday we celebrated the 30th anniversary of Emirates. I remember well our first steps and the challenges of building our own airline,” he tweeted.

“Emirates began in 1985 with two leased planes. Today we connect 147destinations on 5 continents with 240 planes and we have 267 more on order.”

Over the next 30 years, Emirates will engrain itself in innovation, reinventing aviation “with new products, technologies and services,” Shaikh Mohammad said.

“Competing in aviation requires not only physical infrastructure but also intellectual infrastructure to entirely redefine global travel.”

“Our vision for Dubai is clear: we are not building the largest airports in the world. We are building the aviation capital of the world.”

Dubai is developing a second airport in the south of the emirate, Al Makoum International at Dubai World Central (DWC). Opening in October 2013 to passenger traffic the airport will over the next decade be scaled up from its current capacity if being able to handle between 5 to 7 million passengers a year to 120 million. By 2025, Emirates is expected to move over from Dubai International to the new airport that will later be expanded again to one day handle over 220 million passengers a year.

On October 20, Emirates Group announce it will use IT, smart technology and data to reinvent its business process as part of a tech-driven enterprise transformation.

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