As we all know Dubai is a busy city, an incredibly rich city to and it is also the worlds number 1 tourist destination with more than 83 million passengers a year it makes it one of the if not, the busiest airport in the world. With more and more passengers coming in and out of Dubai every year, it needs an expansion. World's 5 mega infrastructure developments: Dubai's 'Super Airport' - News - Emirates - Emirates24|7
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The airport will have a total of 5 parallel runways all of them being 4.5 kilometres long with each runway being 800 metres apart. I personally think this is a great idea as Dubai is a very very busy city with a population of 2.7 million people. This airport expansion is well needed as every year more and more passengers are arriving at Dubai, let me know what your opinion is on this :)
It is not an expansion, but a completely different airport. I donât know what will happen to the current one, but this is Dubai - World Central Intâl (DWC).
And - to answer @Kyle.Plane 's question:
Either, the runways are not entirely parallel, or the runway heading is rounded in the opposite direction to make the runway number.
Canât have more than 3 parallel runways numbered like how you guys are discussing. Take KDFW for example. Dallas has 5 âparallelâ runways but they are numbered 17L,R,C and 18L,R. No such thing as LL or RR marking on a runway.
It doesnât need five runways. Too much confusion. Unless there handling 250 million passengers a year, which theyâre not, then they certainly donât need all of those. Gatwick handles close to, if not 50 million a year off a single runway if Iâm not mistaken.
Yeah but they do. Think of all the connecting traffic they get through, Emirates live out of there, and unlike London they really only use 1 airport for commercial traffic.
But you could have an aircraft waiting to cross four runways potentially - that could take 10+ minutes depending on traffic. Not that efficient in that sense.
In global it wonât be anywhere near as busy, we will most likely have an airport to ourselves (Dubai probably wonât) My second global flight might be to Dubai or maybe departing from Dubai. The good thing is, because most of our airports should be almost like a ghost town, arrivals and departures should be so quick. Mind you, we still donât know how ATC will work so we will either get unicom or ATC, Iâd prefer ATC.
Didnât EK just recently said they would prefer to stay at DXB (because closer to the city) and make FlyDubai and other airlines move to DWC? Talk about wasting money and resourcesâŚ
