10 March 2016
Abu Dhabi Airports Company has completed 70 percent of the Midfield Terminal Building (MIB) and is "on track" to start operations at the new facility from December 2017, a senior company executive said.
"The Midfield Terminal is going very well in terms of construction. We are at 70 percent today and we are on target for meeting all the milestones that we planned to basically achieve," Ahmad Al Haddabi, Chief Operations Officer, Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC), said in a video interview at the Global Aviation Summit in Abu Dhabi this week.
The video was distributed by event organisers: www.zawya.com/middle-east/video/VID20160309043635/.
Construction on the MIB project, worth around 10.8 billion UAE dirhams ($2.9 billion), started in September 2012 and operations are officially slated to start in December next year, in time for National Day 2017, according to a December 2015 report by UAE newspaper The National.
"When we open the Midfield Terminal we will be easily capable of handling 50 (million), or more than 45 million passengers per annum. We will be ready to handle more than 70 to 80 aircraft at one time. We will be able to process passengers fast by having a smart airport. This is our vision," Al Haddabi added.
Dubai's Arabtec Construction is the main contractor on the project.
(Writing by Shane McGinley)
© Zawya 2016
Abu Dhabi Airports Company has completed 70 percent of the Midfield Terminal Building (MIB) and is "on track" to start operations at the new facility from December 2017, a senior company executive said.
"The Midfield Terminal is going very well in terms of construction. We are at 70 percent today and we are on target for meeting all the milestones that we planned to basically achieve," Ahmad Al Haddabi, Chief Operations Officer, Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC), said in a video interview at the Global Aviation Summit in Abu Dhabi this week.
The video was distributed by event organisers: www.zawya.com/middle-east/video/VID20160309043635/.
Construction on the MIB project, worth around 10.8 billion UAE dirhams ($2.9 billion), started in September 2012 and operations are officially slated to start in December next year, in time for National Day 2017, according to a December 2015 report by UAE newspaper The National.
"When we open the Midfield Terminal we will be easily capable of handling 50 (million), or more than 45 million passengers per annum. We will be ready to handle more than 70 to 80 aircraft at one time. We will be able to process passengers fast by having a smart airport. This is our vision," Al Haddabi added.
Dubai's Arabtec Construction is the main contractor on the project.
(Writing by Shane McGinley)
© Zawya 2016
