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The Dubai Airport ( Matar مطار دبي الدولي Dubayy ad duwalī, Eng. Dubai International Airport ) is the airport of the city of Dubai and the eponymous Emirates of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). 2012, more than 57 million passengers were transported. In order for the airport in a global comparison of the airports is ranked 10 in front of the Frankfurt airport. The already completely rebuilt airport is located about five kilometers southeast of the city center. Due to its foreseeable capacity limit is currently under construction, the new Dubai World Central International Airport.
Airlines
The airport is home to Emirates, the international airline of the Emirate of Dubai, and serves as the hub of this in its network.
In 2007, the Kuwaiti airline Jazeera Airways opened a hub in Dubai. So she was the first stationed in Dubai low cost airline.
Until the late 1980s, it was not possible to perform non-stop flights between Europe and the Far East, as Western airlines were not allowed to fly over the territory of the former USSR, still focused on aircraft with sufficient range available. Therefore, Dubai and other airports were used in the Persian Gulf for stopovers. Today, all major Western European airlines connect their hubs with Dubai. This also applies analogously for airlines from the Far East.
Examples of active Western European airlines and their tailed hubs are Air France (Paris), Austrian Airlines (Vienna ), British Airways ( London), KLM (Amsterdam), TUIfly (Hanover), Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich) and Swiss or former Swissair ( Zurich ). Meanwhile, airlines from the region of the former Soviet bloc from are active, for example, offers the Romanian Tarom scheduled flights on the route Bucharest to Dubai. Air Berlin operated from November 2010, the Berlin- Dubai, ended in early 2012 the connection as a result of the capital increase of shareholder Etihad Airways and the associated connecting the hub Abu Dhabi.
History
In 1937 began the Imperial Airways to operate the weekly traffic to stations such as Karachi and Southampton. The British Overseas Airways Corporation (now British Airways) took over in the 1940s the flying boat traffic from Dubai.
Construction of the airport was established in 1959 by the then ruling Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum commissioned. First, the airport was able to check in through the 1800 meter long runway only aircraft of type Douglas DC-3. A 2800 -meter runway was opened in 1965, and inaugurated many hangar extensions. In 1969 there were nine airlines with connections to over 20 mostly regional destinations. In the 1970s, a 13,400 -square-foot terminal, a new control tower were built. A little later, the runway was extended to 3810 meters to be built to serve long-haul aircraft can. 1984, the second runway was opened with 4477 meters. With the rise of Dubai Industrial City since the 1980s, the importance of the airport continued to grow.
Terminal 2 was opened in 1998 as the first step of the development plan and inaugurated in 2000 Concourse 1 year. Was started in 2004 with the construction of Terminal 3, which cost the equivalent of about 3.63 billion euros. The new terminal took 14 October 2008 on the operation.
Meanwhile, the airport has one of the largest duty- free shops around the world has.
Facilities
The airport has two parallel runways, which are offset from one another. The southern railway 12R/30L is slightly longer than the northern 12L/30R.
Passenger
The airport is (T1- T3) divided into three passenger terminals, which together have four Terminal building. Terminal 1 is connected to its gate building (Concourse C) by a pedestrian tunnel below the southern runway. The gates of Terminal 2 are, however, located in the terminal building. Terminal 2 has no jetways, so all flights must be handled on apron buses. Terminal 3 has two Terminal Building Concourse B connects directly to the south-east of Concourse C and is like this with the terminal building via a tunnel connected. Taken together, the buildings have a total length of over 1700 m. Concourse A is accessible as another satellite by an underground people mover system and buses over the apron. Concourse A and B are used exclusively by Emirates.
Other systems
The Dubai Royal Air Wing ( government airline of the emirate ) is stationed at Dubai. It has its own terminal in the southeastern area of the airport.
Importance
Dubai International Airport is the most important airport of the Middle East. When cargo volumes it is around 1.4 million tonnes ( 2005) ranked 18 worldwide more than 100 airlines flying to over 150 destinations.
The Dubai International Airport is a logistics center of the United Nations World Food Programme. If necessary humanitarian relief flights are far carried out in the African and South Asian aid rooms.
Extension
Since 2002, three other terminals are constructed, in addition to opened in 2000 Sheikh Rashid Terminal. On 14 October 2008, Terminal 3 was opened, which was designed exclusively for Emirates. With this new terminal, the airport reached an annual capacity of more than 60 million passengers. The cost of construction of Terminal 3 were 4.5 billion U.S. dollars. With its length of 920 meters and a floor space of over one million square meters, the "T 3" one of the largest terminals in the world. Due to the direct connection of the new building with the terminal 1 results in a longitudinal axis of almost 1800 meters. For the underground construction of 10 million cubic meters of earth were moved and used 33,000 tons of structural steel. To avoid initial operational disturbances such as London Heathrow, the T 3 was partially put into operation only after a few months the full occupancy is reached. In a further extension step (Concourse A) until the end of 2012, the airport will be brought to a capacity of 80 million passengers. Since mid-2009 the airport for CAT III B landing procedure is certified. Early 2012 were communicated that the airport is the largest in the world should be and will be invested 6 billion euros plans.
In addition to Concourse 3 since 2009 Concourse 4, which is now Concourse A is called after the completion on January 3, 2013, and extends the Concourse 1 and thus the total annual capacity will increase to about 90 million passengers emerged. The new 650 meter long hall has 20 check-in positions, and it can 15 million passengers are handled. Since January 3, 2013, the Concourse A is 4 handling positions for the A380 in test mode. By March 2013, the remaining parking positions are taken gradually into operation. According to the official statement, the airport operator Concourse A is reserved exclusively for the A 380 Emirates fleet. In fact, however, the two handling positions at the head ends of the terminal no passenger boarding bridge for the A380 upper deck, all parking positions have parking markers for other types of aircraft. Stand in March 2013 many Emirates A380 and B777 flights from Concourse A from be settled. The new Concourse A has cost 2.3 billion euros.
The cargo terminal called Cargo Mega Terminal, which will be expanded to 2018 will bring an estimated turnover of approximately 3 million tons of cargo.
About 60 kilometers south-west is currently being built the world's largest airport, the airport Dubai World Central International. He is the Dubai International Airport despite its size, but not replace, but complement. The two airports are to be connected by the planned construction of a high speed line of the Dubai Metro.
Transport links
By road, the city of Dubai is connected to the airport. Southeast tangent to the Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road Airport, on both the northern Emirates Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al - Qaiwain and Ras al -Khaimah as well - are to reach Abu Dhabi - in the opposite direction. The roads in the catchment area of the airport are often occupied because of the generally high volume of traffic in Dubai with congestion.
In addition, the Dubai Metro runs south to the airport via the stations Terminal 1 and Terminal 3 to the red line and north of the green line.