"Dubai's second airport to open end-2006"

Monday, July 12, 2004

Dubai's second airport to open end-2006
Agence France-Presse


DUBAI, (AFP) - A second airport is to be built in Dubai and will be
operational at the end of 2006, civil aviation chief Sheikh Ahmed bin
Saeed al-Maktoum said.

The new airport will be located near the free zone of Jebel Ali, 50
kilometres (30 miles) out of town, and will initially handle only
freight before opening up to chartered flights, he told Monday's
Al-Khaleej daily.

To be built at a cost of up to one billion dirhams (about 272 million
dollars), the new airport should become operational at the end of 2006,
with a capacity to initially handle 250,000 to 300,000 tons of freight
per year, said Sheikh Ahmed, who is also chairman of Dubai's Emirates
airline.

Dubai International Airport, which is being expanded at a cost of around
four billion dollars, handled 10.41 million passengers in the first half
of this year, an increase of 27 percent on the same period in 2003.

Volume of freight in the same period soared by 21.7 percent to 535,212
tons. Dubai, a tourist and commercial hub, expects to handle annual
traffic of about 30 million passengers by 2010 and more than 60 million
by 2020.


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