A MAJOR £28billion project is set to transform a Dubai airport into "the world's airport" and global centre, says the city's leader.International Airport - currently the world's busiest airport by international passenger traffic - will be transferred to Al Maktoum "within the
Ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the UAE Sheikh Mohammed said on X: "Al Maktoum International Airport will be the largest in the world with a final capacity of up to 260 million passengers.""We are preparing for a phase in which Dubai leads the international aviation sector for the next forty years.
Dubai and airline Emirates, the largest airline in the Middle East and the fourth largest in the world, strongly and quickly rebounded after the pandemic, mostly due to it reopening to tourism in mid-2020. Dubai announced its best-ever tourism numbers in February and revealed it had hosted 17.15 million international overnight visitors in 2023, with average hotel occupancy at about 77 per cent.