World's biggest airport is being constructed in Dubai desert — but why?
https://sfl.gl/88AUMZ World's biggest airport is being constructed in Dubai desert — but why? Dubai's future world's biggest airport is expected to accommodate 160 million passengers per year An illustration of the world's biggest airport in Dubai. — Dubai Airports/File A little more than 10 years ago, in October 2013, a Wizz Air A320 arriving from Budapest made headlines by becoming the first commercial passenger flight ever to touch down at Al Maktoum International Airport, also known as Dubai World Central (DWC ). This brand new “greenfield” airport some 20 miles southwest of downtown Dubai was designed to become, in a not-so-distant future, the world’s largest and busiest, according to CNN . The vision was – and still is – for a futuristic mega-hub, ensuring that the emirate’s role as a major node of the global economy doesn’t run into capacity problems anytime soon. After Al Maktoum International is completed, Dubai Airports, the airport organisation that over...