Dubai Airports CEO Update

Dubai International Airport will accommodate nearly 90 million passengers in 2017, making it again the world’s largest international airport. Dubai Airports CEO Paul Griffiths discusses plans to double the airport’s throughput to 180 million passengers by 2023 despite site constraints. He also talks about how Dubai International Airport will facilitate increased cooperation between Emirates and flydubai including the challenging objective of co-locating Dubai’s two home carriers in the same terminal. Meanwhile Dubai World Central will increase capacity early next year to 25 million passengers and Dubai Airports is working to attract more airlines to the new facility.