Dubai World Central - Al Maktoum International Airport

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Dubai's Al Maktoum International Airport ( IATA: DWC, ICAO: OMDW ) (also: " Dubai World Central Airport " ) is an airport in Jebel Ali Village neighborhood of Jebel Ali in the desert city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, for since June 2010, is open for passenger flights and cargo flights since October 2013.

After his final order 2020Vorlage: Future / In 5 years, he will be the largest airport in the world in terms of capacity. On 23 February 2011 he received the official approval as an airport for general aviation. It is located about 45 kilometers southwest of the former Dubai airport.

Construction, opening, use

The DWC is a modular project, the first airstrip was completed in November 2007 after 600 days. In the spring of 2009, the 91 meter high tower was completed with basic rooms; a special feature is a station for the observation of meteors here. To " phase 1" said first stage includes a cargo terminal, the passenger terminal and the grade for the Airbus A380 take-off and landing strip. A total of 64 parking spaces for aircraft are available. The cargo terminal was opened in June 2010 and included the airfreight. Passenger flight operations has been held since October 2013.

Disappointing for the airport operator is the great reluctance of airlines in terms of the mobilization of the DWC. Even the state Emirates has no current plans to relocate its passenger traffic with smaller machines there. Here the year is only envisaged in 2022 or later. So DWC initially remains a focal point for cargo, bulk cargo and airline tickets. Due to the difficult financial situation increased also raising money from investors for the accompanying urban additions to the DWC. The Emirate leadership maintains, however, the expansion plans in accordance with the master plan. She is confident to offer exactly the right capacity in the emerging global economic upturn inside.

In the current state of development is a regular or occasional use by, among other cargo airlines take: Kalitta Air, Air Atlanta Icelandic, Cargolux, Martinair Cargo, Rus Aviation, Condor and Etihad ( for training flights).

Dubai World Central master plan

The overall " Dubai World Central " should cover a total area of ​​140 square kilometers desert terrain south of the Jebel Ali Free Trade Zone. Addition to the actual internal airport DWC It also includes satellite- like devices for Logistics ( Dubai Logistics City, 25 square kilometers), aeronautical research and development, aviation, and aviation service and maintenance company ( Aviation City, around 12 square kilometers ), plus several quarters Living ( Residential City and Golf City ), as well as a mixed Commercial City (with up to 800 possible high-rise buildings ). On the premises are located as separate projects and the Humanitarian City (IHC ) and the new Dubai Exhibition Centre ( Dubai Exhibition World). The airport location is configured as a workspace and home to over 800,000 people. The huge Dubai Logistics City promotes the integration of airport, seaport and general production and logistics space within a free trade zone. The handling of goods from about 10 km from the port Jebel Ali in the coming DWC air cargo should only take four hours. Thus, large amounts of high-quality goods in the combined sea-air transport, for example, from Asia to Europe / North America reach their destination in unrivaled short time.

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Depending on the development of traffic can start and four more runways and 15 more cargo terminal will be built, if the required civil engineering infrastructure is already held in the "Phase 2". The foreseen in the center part of the main passenger airport with the mid-field terminals so-called is currently in the design planning - these core part of the airport is the earliest in the year 2016Vorlage: go future / In 2 years in operation. According to some sources should not be started before 2018 with the next stage of expansion. Overall, the Central Airport with five ( originally in the master plan provided for six) to each 4500 m long start and runways have to be at least 800 m from each other, without being affected by wake turbulence that is parallel and can be used simultaneously.

After final completion (approx. 2025Vorlage: Future / In 5 years ) can and should check in according to the latest calculation 160 million passengers annually and Fold around 12 million tonnes of air cargo airport, that is almost six times the cargo volume of 2007 of the Frankfurt am Main Airport. Wants to achieve the one which far exceeds the regional needs of passengers with the use of the geo-strategic location of Dubai in the Persian Gulf with transit traffic. The new airport is the current Dubai International Airport, which is located 40 kilometers north-east - already completely rebuilds and above its capacity limit soon - complement first, then medium grade in the course of the DWC- expansion to second airport. According to the original planning the purple line should be particularly fast 49 km long stretch of the Dubai Metro link the new DWC airport to the city center of Dubai and the old airport at the end of 2012. The project is currently ( end of 2011) is not pursued, which is a further competitive disadvantage for DWC.

The state-owned airline Emirates will deploy long term its Airbus A380 fleet completely at DWC. According to current planning, part of the international transit of the directions America / Europe is - Near East / South Asia / Australia will be poached from the previous part geostrategic more conveniently located hubs in Europe and South Asia and directed to DWC.

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