said given the demand, the airport has bumped its projected passenger numbers for 2023 to 85 million, just shy of 2019’s annual traffic of 86.3 million passengers. The airport saw 89.1 million passengers in 2018 - its busiest-ever year before the pandemic. DXB had 66 million passengers pass through it in 2022.
For Dubai International Airport, however, the swift business also revives a major challenge forgotten during the pandemic - it is boxed in. The airport sits in the northern reaches of Dubai, bracketed by two major highways to the east and west and vast neighborhoods to its north and south. That prohibits expanding the size of the two-runway airfield.
“We are landlocked on all four sides because I think back in the ’60s when this airport was a very small single runway field, no one really saw at that time the huge development” coming,said of DXB. “I think it’s testament to the developments we have undertaken that within that landlocked site, we’ve been able to produce real estate, which has become the world’s busiest international airport.”
He said the airport has a plan to spend as much as $2.7 billion to expand and upgrade its three terminals and increase the number of remote aircraft parking spaces on the airport’s apron. Those improvements “will probably see us right for about the next 12 to 13 years,” he said. That likely will extend the horizon further for major work at Al Maktoum International Airport at Dubai World Central, the city-state’s second airfield some 45 kilometers away in its far southern reaches. While used by commercial airlines when Qatar hosted the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the second airport that opened in 2010 largely sees cargo and private aircraft flights.Please read our
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