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Concourse 4 on track for launch
Wednesday, May 04, 2011
Gulf News
Dubai Airports to launch plans for Concourse 4 this year
[Airport’s 10-year plan targets 98.5m passengers by 2020]
Dubai Dubai Airports is planning to launch Concourse 4 at Dubai International Airport as part of its masterplan to be revealed this year, Paul Griffiths, chief executive of Dubai Airports , told Gulf News.
Dubai Airports incorporates Dubai International and the eagerly-awaited Dubai World Central-Al Maktoum International .
Dubai International currently has two concourses, and the third is due to open in late 2012.
Elaborating on the plans for Concourse 4, Griffiths told Gulf News: “Concourse 4 is a part of the masterplan discussion. So I can’t attach an exact timeline to it. There is a lot of fairly intricate planning we have to do to sequence the construction beyond there.
“And once that happens, Emirates will then take over Concourses 1, 2 and 3 at Dubai International. That’s the plan.”
Growth plan
Dubai Airports yesterday announced its ten-year traffic forecast for Dubai International and Dubai World Central-Al Maktoum International (DWC) that projects international passenger and cargo traffic will increase at an average annual growth rate of 7.2 per cent and 6.7 per cent respectively, outperforming industry projections for average annual growth of five per cent globally.
By 2020 passenger numbers at Dubai International Airport will reach 98.5 million and cargo volumes will top 4.1 million tonnes, it said.
Capacity
In terms of Dubai International’s capacity, which currently is 60 million passengers, it is expected to increase to “75 million passengers by the end of 2012,” with the opening of Concourse 3, Griffiths said.
“We hope to take it up to about 90 million by 2018. That’s the goal,” Griffiths added.
He said Dubai International was forecast to become the world’s busiest by 2015.
Currently it is the fourth busiest airport in the world in terms of international passenger traffic and fourth in international cargo, offering connections to more than 220 destinations by more than 150 airlines.
projections
90m
passenger capacity expected by 2018
4.1m
likely cargo volumes (in tonnes) by 2018
7.2%
expected annual passenger growth in Dubai
By Shweta Jain?Senior Reporter
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