Dubai Airports CEO Paul Griffiths said a new $35 billion expansion of Al Maktoum International Airport will put the emirate on the map for the world’s best, biggest, and busiest air passenger terminal to transport 260 million travelers a year once completed.
In an interview with Al Arabiya English, Griffiths also said he envisioned the Middle East becoming an “increasingly important global hub” – thanks to mega-regional aviation expansion, including Saudi Arabia’s new airline Riyadh Air, and new airports in Riyadh and its giga project NEOM.
In April, Dubai approved blueprints for phase two expansion of Dubai World Central (DWC) – Al Maktoum International Airport, which envisages a state-of-the-art 21st-century airport with a capacity to handle 260 million passengers annually, 12 million tonnes of cargo.
