{"id":617569,"date":"2023-11-16T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T03:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=617569"},"modified":"2023-11-16T09:19:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T03:49:26","slug":"dubai-to-replace-dxb-airport-with-bigger-one-as-passenger-count-improves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dubai-to-replace-dxb-airport-with-bigger-one-as-passenger-count-improves\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai to replace DXB airport with bigger one as passenger count improves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai is planning to replace the world&#8217;s busiest airport, Dubai International (IATA code: DXB), with an even bigger one as passenger traffic recovers to surpass pre-pandemic levels. <\/p>\n<p>Paul Griffiths, chief executive officer (CEO) of Dubai Airports, said, &#8220;Designs are being drawn up for the Al Maktoum International Airport, which will be built on the city&#8217;s outskirts and should replace the Dubai International in the 2030s.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>At the Dubai Airshow in the UAE, Griffiths said that once the country reaches 120 million passengers a year, which is the total capacity at the DXB (Dubai International), a new airport will be needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai is planning to replace the world&#8217;s busiest airport, Dubai International (IATA code: DXB), with an even bigger one as passenger traffic recovers to surpass pre-pandemic levels. Paul Griffiths, chief executive officer (CEO) of Dubai Airports, said, &#8220;Designs are being drawn up for the Al Maktoum International Airport, which will be built on the city&#8217;s outskirts and should replace the Dubai International in the 2030s.&#8221; At the Dubai Airshow in the UAE, Griffiths said that once the country reaches 120 million passengers a year, which is the total capacity at the DXB (Dubai International), a new airport will be needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}