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DWC will be able to handle up to 160 million passengers per annum. This compares to the world’s busiest passenger airport Atlanta at 90 million passengers per annum
DUBAI WORLD CENTRAL Phase one of Dubai World Central (DWC)
includes a single A380 compatible runway – a passenger terminal with capacity of five million passengers per annum, expandable to seven million passengers per annum. It also features a cargo terminal building with a capacity of 250,000 tonnes per annum (expandable to 600,000) and a 92-metre air traffic control tower. Once completed, DWC will have up to four passenger terminals. One will be dedicated to the Emirates Group, another will cater to other regional and international carriers, a third will be earmarked for low-cost carriers and the fourth will be dedicated to executive jet operations. DWC will be able to handle up to 160 million passengers per annum. The world's busiest passenger airport, Atlanta, currently handles 90 million passengers per annum.
Flydubai –rapid route expansion
Dubai's low-cost carrier, flydubai, now operates to more than 43 desti- nations within a five-hour flight time of the emirate. The airline flies to cities in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, the CIS and the fringes of Europe. Destinations rolled out by the carrier in 2011 include Hyderabad in India, Kazan and Ufa in Russia and Kiev, Donetsk and Kharkiv in Ukraine. Flydubai operates a fleet of Next-Generation 737-800 aircraft out of Dubai Interna- tional Airport's Terminal B.
It is located next to the Terminal 3 car park area in Zone C on Level 2 and features 16 counters and allowing passengers to check-in up to 24 hours ahead of their flight.
In-flight entertainment hardware on Emir-
ates' existing A330-200 and A340-300 fleets has also been upgraded to a new digital system bring- ing ICE ('ICE' stands for Information, Communica- tions and Entertainment) to every seat in Emirates First Class and Emirates Business Class. In addition, Emirates now has more than 90 aircraft equipped with AeroMobile, which allows mobile phone use in-flight. The airline is also poised to roll out A380 aircraft equipped with WiFi internet connection.
The airport forms the heart of a greater project also called Dubai World Central, a 140 square kilometre multi-phase development of six clus- tered zones that include the Dubai Logistics City (DLC), Commercial City, Residential City, Aviation City and Golf City. The development is the region's first integrated, multi-modal transpor- tation platform connecting air, sea, and land.
DUBAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT US$7.2 billion has been invested into expand-
ing Dubai International Airport, including the addition of Terminal 3 – the Emirates airline dedicated terminal, which opened in October 2008, increased the airport's overall capacity to 60 million passengers per annum. Construction on Dubai International's Con- course 3 is due for completion at the end of 2012, which will boost the total annual airport capacity to 75 million passengers. In addi- tion, US$7.66 billion in funding has also been
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