Airports

DUBAI INTERNATIONAL

  • Total Scheduled Airlines: 120
  • Total Destinations: 205
  • Average Daily Aircraft Movement: 725
  • Average Daily Passenger Movement: 95,000
  • Total Parking Bays: 137

Dubai Airport currently has three passenger terminals. Terminals 1 and 3 are directly connected with a common transit area, with airside passengers being able to move freely between the terminals without going through immigration, whilst Terminal 2 is built on the opposite end of the airport. Transport within and between these three terminals is provided by people movers, underground tunnels.

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Situated beside Terminal 2 is the Executive Flights Terminal, which has its own check-in facilities for premium passengers and where transportation to aircraft in any of the other terminals is by personal buggy. All four terminals currently have a handling capacity of 60 million passengers a year spread over an area of 225,020 m2 (2,422,100 sq ft). Capacity will rise again to 75 million passengers a year when expansion works to Concourse 3 are completed.

Dubai Airport, with all four terminals, now caters to a full spectrum of passengers. Terminal 2 is for cost-conscious passengers and passengers flying to the sub-continent and the Gulf region; Terminals 1 and 3 take care of 90% of the travelers; and the Executive Flights terminal targets those who demand luxury when travelling.

Terminal 1
The 1 km (0.62 mi) long Sheikh Rashid Terminal (Terminal 1) has an overall capacity of 23 million passengers. It is used by 113 airlines. It is connected to Concourse 1 by an underground 300 m (980 ft) tunnel. Terminal 1 offers 221 check in counters, with a separate section for first and business class passengers. In arrivals there are 40 passport control desks and 14 baggage claims belts.

Concourse 1
Concourse part of Terminal 1 is currently used by all international airlines. Opened in 2000, it used to be the main part of Dubai Airport before Terminal 3 opened. It incorporates over 60 gates, and 50 air bridges. Current facilities include restaurants, lounges, a 5 star hotel, a business centre, a health club, a 5,400 m2 (58,000 sq ft) duty-free shopping facility. Other facilities include prayer rooms, and a medical centre.

Terminal 2
Terminal 2 in 2009 had a capacity of 5 million passengers. It is used primarily for airlines in the region and Iran. Most flights are to Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. This terminal is also being expanded as in recent years was too congested. More than 25 airlines using this terminal has 22 check-in counters and an area of 1,440 m2 of duty-free shops.


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Terminal 2 has undergone a major refurbishment, with the extension of services check-in and boarding, a change in the interior and exterior, and offers more dining options for passengers. Capacity has grown from 2 to 5 million and has increased the number of services for passengers. Also, the check-in counters are now 36. The boarding area has been transformed into a more spacious seating area with more natural light. The new open boarding gates allow several flights now boarding at the same time, significantly improving the movement of passengers and aircraft. The shopping area of Dubai Duty Free has 1,400 square meters departures and arrivals 50 meters square. The expansion from 3,437 square feet includes a larger arrivals hall. For passengers in transit there is a shuttle service between the terminals with a journey time of 20 minutes to Terminal 1 and 30 minutes to Terminal 3.

Terminal 3
Terminal 3 is the largest building in the world by floor space, with over 1,500,000 m2 (370 acres) of space. The terminal is said to be "opulence personified". Terminal 3 has an annual capacity of 43 million passengers. It is located beneath the taxiway area at Dubai airport and is directly connected to concourse 2. Inside Terminal 3, there are 82 moving walkways, 97 escalators, eight skytrains, 82 moving, and 157 lifts. Terminal 3 differs from Terminal 1 as there are fewer walking distances. This is the main difference between the terminal 1, which is linked to the concourse (Sheikh Rashid Terminal) with a tunnel, and terminal 3. The shape of the terminal 3 is in the shape of an aircraft wing and is 1 km (0.62 mi) long.

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Terminal 3 includes a multi level underground structure, first and business class lounges, restaurants, 180 check-in counters and 2,600 underground parking spaces. The terminal will, by adding 15,000 m2 (160,000 sq ft), double the amount of retail space at Dubai Airport.

The departure and arrival halls in the new terminal are located 10 m (33 ft) beneath the airport's taxiways. The terminal incorporates two levels of parking for vehicles and was fully opened on 14 October 2008.

Concourse 2 is directly connected to terminal 3, and is a 950 m (3,100 ft) long concourse that is dedicated exclusively to Emirates Airline. The building currently includes a multi-level structure for departures and arrivals at Dubai Airport and includes 27 contact gates and 59 passenger loading bridges.

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Also there is a direct connection to Sheikh Rashid Terminal located at the control tower structure through passenger walkways. There is also a 300-room hotel and health club that will include both five and four star rooms. And a further 10,000 m2 (110,000 sq ft) of commercial space will be added to the current Dubai Airport. Concourse 2 includes five aerobridges that are capable of handling the new Airbus A380.

The terminal itself contains 52 immigration counters, 14 baggage carousels, and 12 e-gates (Electronic Passport Control System used at all entry point into the United Arab Emirates.

The concourse has the capacity to handle 23 million passengers, and on a normal day, has a capacity of 17,000 people an hour.

Concourse 3
Concourse 3 will be a smaller version of concourse 2, and is planned to have temperature-controlled lounges. It will have 20 contact gates, of which 18 will be exclusively for the Airbus A380. The two concourses will be connected with electric buses. Concourse 3 will also be connected to the public levels of Terminal 3 with an automated people mover and also a service tunnel for further baggage transfer. Construction began on Concourse 3 in early 2008, and is expected to be completed by 2012.

Terminal 4
Planning has begun to bring on Terminal 4 at Dubai International Airport, it was revealed on the day Emirates completed its phased operations at the new Terminal 3, on 14 November 2008. According to Dubai Airport officials plans for Terminal 4 had begun and extensions would be made to Terminal 3. The airport is planning to service 70 - 80 million passengers a year by 2013.

VIP Terminal
The VIP Terminal opened on November 17 2008, and caters to all famous figures to sport stars, businessmen, as well as large corporate entities. The terminal is located close to Terminal 2, includes a 5,500 square-metre two-storey main building, a 3,700 square metre hangar, a 3,700 square metre ramp area for aircraft parking, and a special VIP car park for long term parking. The new facility makes EFC the largest dedicated business aviation terminal in the Middle East.

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The terminal also has its own dedicated immigration and customs areas, a Dubai Duty Free outlet, a fully equipped business/conference centre, eight luxury private lounges, and a limousine service between the aircraft and the terminal. Passengers arriving into the Terminal can also book for a dedicated VIP car.

Terminal 3 increased capacity at the airport to 60 million passengers a year. The further expansion of Concourse 3 should increase this capacity to over 75 million passengers annually.

Dubai Airport has two parallel runways, 12R/30L and 12L/30R, each 60 m (200 ft) wide. The runways are equipped with four sets of ILS to guide landing aircraft safely under all weather condition. The runway was recently expanded to accommodate the Airbus A380.

Accommodating the Airbus A380
With Dubai-based Emirates Airline being one of the launch customers for the Airbus A380 and also the largest customer, Dubai airport needed to expand its existing facilities to accommodate the very large aircraft. The Civil Aviation Authority of Dubai spent $120 million in upgrading the two of its terminals and airport infrastructure, including enlarged gate holdrooms, new finger piers, enlarged runway, new airbridges and extended baggage belt carousels from the normal 70 to 90 m (230 to 300 ft).

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Dubai airport is also investing $3.5 billion into a new Concourse 3, exclusively for handling Emirates Airline A380's. This is expected to be completed by 2011. With these new carousels in place, the airport does not expect embarking and disembarking passengers and baggage from the A380 to take longer than it does for Boeing 747-400s, which carry significantly fewer passengers. On 16 July 2008, Dubai Airport unveiled the first of 5 specially-built gates capable of handling the giant aircraft. Costing $10 million, the gates or 'fingers' enable passengers to get on the upper cabin of the new 555-seater aircraft directly from the gate hold rooms. The hold rooms themselves have been enlarged and appointed to cater for the larger number of passengers flying the A380s. Beside the 5 new gates at Terminal 1, eight more A380-capable gates were opened at Terminal 3 on 14 November 2008.

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Sheikh Maktoum International Airport
Al Maktoum International Airport (JXB), Dubai's second airport and the world's forecasted largest, is being developed with the purpose of complementing the existing Dubai International Airport. Formerly known as Jebel Ali International Airport and as Dubai World Central International Airport, the new name became official in November 2007, honoring the late Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, former ruler of the Emirate.

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Managed by the newly established Dubai Airports company, the AED29.7 billion (USD8.1 billion) airport is the crown jewel of the 140 sq. km Dubai World Central aviation complex, a six-segment multi-purpose aviation and tourism community. Upon completion in 2015, the 6 million sq. m airport will be the world's largest cargo and passenger hub with an annual cargo capacity of 12 million tons and a passenger capacity of 120-150 million passengers per year.

JXB will consist of two mega terminals, one exclusively for Emirates Airlines and the other for international and regional carriers. The airport's other terminals consist of a low-cost carrier terminal and one for executive and business jets. JXB will have six parallel runways and as many concourses with a 92-meter high control tower; it will be able accommodate all new generation aircrafts, including A380's. It will also contain its own hotels and shopping malls, support facilities and high-tech maintenance facilities capable of examining all aircrafts, including A380's.


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