A design for what will become the world’s new largest-capacity airport terminal has been announced for Dubai by the Emirati leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Al Jazeera and other international outlets are reporting on the planned $35 billion development, which will take shape at the existing Al Maktoum International Airport with 400 total gates, five parallel runways, and a capacity for 260 million annual travelers — five times the size of Dubai's current international airport, according to the announcement.
Sheikh Mohammed also said there is a plan for a one-million-person satellite city to be developed alongside the new terminal, joined by a logistics hub for international carriers. Yahoo! Finance reported the vision will be realized "within ten years."
Speaking via his X account, the nation's ruler said, "We are building a new project for future generations, ensuring continuous and stable development for our children and their children in turn. Dubai will be the world's airport, its port, its urban hub, and its new global center."
5 Comments
"Dubai will be the world's airport, its port, its urban hub, and its new global center."
I know nothing here and am curious. Who will be flying in to this mammoth airport, who will live in all the luxury housing, who will use all the cultural and sports projects? What kind of society, local and global, will they create, if the people come? Is there any reality to all their projections? If the facilities are used, it will signify a significant shift in the global political and economic environment. If the projections don't pan out—
I'm skeptical, of course. We have seen massive development of all sorts in China, but it has the population to support it—eventually, I suppose.
That interior could sport a golf course—and I see a green already laid out.
Saudi Arabia has a population of some 34 million, and this population could feed all the development and foster growth for the country as a whole. If it has a society that can grow:
Moreover, with so much revenue coming in from oil, the government is still unable to provide jobs for its citizens. Saudi Arabia provides one in four barrels of oil exported around the world, yet 40 percent of Saudi youth between twenty and twenty-four are unemployed. The unemployment is partly due to the fact that 90 percent of all employees in the private sector are foreign workers.
The lack of economic freedom also correlates with the high rates of poverty, as 40 percent of Saudis live in poverty and at least 60 percent cannot afford a home.
https://borgenproject.org/economic-inequality-in-saudi-arabia/
(I found this on the fly.)
Etc.
You surely know that Saudi and Dubai are not the same, right? The project is ridiculous, but i hope you are not ignorant
Thanks for the correction. I can be quite stupid at times. I had all the attention paid to The Line, etc. in mind and slipped gears. I'm still curious what justifies such mammoth construction.
Ladies and Gentleman, thank you for flying Hot Air. In a few minutes we'll be landing in Dubai, where the temperature is currently sufficient to vaporize a glacier. You'll be disembarking at Gate 11 in our fabulous new airport. For all connecting flights, please head to Gate 387. Along the way, enjoy a stop at any of our seventy-four Panda Express locations.
Block this user
Are you sure you want to block this user and hide all related comments throughout the site?
Archinect
This is your first comment on Archinect. Your comment will be visible once approved.