Dubai airport
Dubai International Airport |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | OMDB |
| IATA code | DXB |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 19 m (62 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 5 km southeast of Dubai |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1960 |
| operator | Dubai Department of Civil Aviation |
| surface | 1400 ha |
| Terminals | 3 |
| Passengers | 89,149,387 (2018) |
| Air freight | 2,641,383 (2018) |
| Flight movements |
408,251 (2018) |
| Capacity ( PAX per year) |
95 million |
| Employees | 90,000 |
| Runways | |
| 12R / 30L | 4447 m × 60 m asphalt |
| 12L / 30R | 4351 m × 60 m asphalt |
The Dubai Airport (مطار دبي الدولي Maṭār Dubayy ad-duwalī , engl. Dubai International Airport ) is the airport of the city of Dubai and the emirate ofthe same name in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) . In 2017 more than 88 million passengers were carried. This puts the airport inthird placein a global comparison of airports behind Atlanta Airport and Beijing Airport . The airport, which has already been completely rebuilt, is located around five kilometers southeast of the city center. Due to its foreseeable capacity limit, the new Dubai-World Central International Airport is currently under construction.
Airlines
The airport is the seat of Emirates , the international airline of the Emirates Dubai, and serves as a hub in their route network.
In 2007, the Kuwaiti airline Jazeera Airways opened a hub in Dubai. This made it the first low-cost airline based in Dubai. In addition, FlyDubai, a state-owned low-cost airline, was stationed in Dubai in 2008 .
Until the end of the 1980s, it was not possible to operate non-stop flights between Europe and the Far East, as western airlines were neither allowed to fly over the territory of what was then the USSR , nor were aircraft with sufficient range available. Therefore, Dubai and other airports in the Persian Gulf were used for stopovers. Today all major Western European airlines connect their hubs with Dubai. This also applies to airlines from the Far East.
Examples of active European airlines and their connected hubs are Air France (Paris), British Airways (London), KLM (Amsterdam), Tuifly (Hanover), Lufthansa (Frankfurt am Main), Swiss or formerly Swissair (Zurich) and Turkish Airlines (Istanbul). Airlines from the area of the former Eastern Bloc are now also active, for example the Romanian Tarom offers scheduled flights on the Bucharest – Dubai route. Air Berlin operated the Berlin – Dubai route from November 2010 and ended the connection at the beginning of 2012 as a result of the capital increase by the shareholder Etihad Airways and the associated connection to the Abu Dhabi hub .
history
As early as 1937, Imperial Airways began operating weekly flights to stations such as Karachi and Southampton . The British Overseas Airways Corporation (now British Airways ) took over the airboat traffic from Dubai in the 1940s.
The construction of the airport was commissioned in 1959 by the then ruling Sheikh Raschid bin Said Al Maktum . Initially, the airport was only able to handle Douglas DC-3 aircraft due to the 1,800-meter runway . A 2800-meter runway was opened in 1965, as well as numerous hangar extensions. In 1969 there were connections with nine airlines to around 20 mostly regional destinations. In the 1970s, a 13,400 square meter terminal and a new control tower were built. A little later, the runway was extended to 3810 meters in order to be able to handle long-haul aircraft. In 1984 the second runway was opened with 4447 meters. With the rise of the business metropolis Dubai since the 1980s, the importance of the airport continued to grow.
Terminal 2 was opened in 1998 as the first step in the development plan, and Concourse 1 was inaugurated in 2000 . In 2004, the construction of Terminal 3 began, which cost the equivalent of around 3.63 billion euros. The new terminal went into operation on October 14, 2008.
The airport now has one of the largest duty-free shops in the world.
Investments
Runways
The airport has two parallel runways that are offset from one another. The southern track 12R / 30L is slightly longer than the northern 12L / 30R .
passenger traffic
The airport is divided into three passenger terminals (T1 – T3), which together have four gate buildings. Terminal 1 is connected to its gate building (Concourse C) by a pedestrian tunnel below the southern taxiway. The gates of Terminal 2, on the other hand, are located directly in the terminal building. Terminal 2 does not have passenger boarding bridges , so all flights must be handled by apron buses. Terminal 3 has two gate buildings: Concourse B connects directly to the south-east of Concourse C and, like this, is connected to the terminal building via a tunnel. Taken together, the buildings have a total length of over 1700 m. Concourse A can be reached as a further satellite via an underground people mover system and buses over the apron. Concourse A and B are used exclusively by Emirates .
Other plants
The Dubai Royal Air Wing (government airline of the emirate) is based at Dubai Airport. It has its own terminal in the south-east of the airport.
meaning
Dubai International Airport is the most important airport in the Middle East . In terms of freight volume, it ranks 18th worldwide with around 1,400,000 tons (2005). Over 100 airlines fly to more than 150 destinations.
On the Dubai International Airport is a logistics center of the United Nations World Food Program . If necessary, humanitarian aid flights are carried out far into the African and South Asian aid areas.
expansion
Three more terminals have been built since 2002, in addition to the Sheikh Rashid Terminal opened in 2000 . Terminal 3 was opened on October 14, 2008 and was designed exclusively for Emirates . With this new terminal, the airport will have an annual capacity of more than 60 million passengers. Terminal 3 cost $ 4.5 billion to build. With its length of 920 meters and a usable area of over a million square meters, the "T 3" is one of the largest terminals in the world. The direct connection between the new building and Terminal 1 results in a longitudinal axis of almost 1,800 meters. 10 million cubic meters of soil were moved and 33,000 tons of structural steel were used for the underground construction. In order to avoid initial operational disruptions such as at London Heathrow , the T 3 was put into operation in sections, and full occupancy was only achieved after a few months. In a further expansion step (Concourse A) by the end of 2012, the airport is to be brought to a capacity of 80 million passengers. The airport has been certified for the CAT III B landing procedure since mid-2009 . At the beginning of 2012 plans were communicated that the airport would be the largest in the world and around 6 billion euros would be invested.
In addition to Concourse 3, Concourse 4 was built in 2009, which will now be called Concourse A after completion on January 3, 2013 and will expand Concourse 1 and thus increase the total annual capacity to around 90 million passengers. The new 650 meter long hall has 20 handling positions and can handle 15 million passengers. Since January 3, 2013, Concourse A with four handling positions for the A380 has been in test operation. The remaining parking positions will also gradually be put into operation by March 2013. According to official statements from the airport operator, Concourse A is reserved exclusively for the A380 Emirates fleet. In fact, however, the two check-in positions at the head ends of the terminal do not have a passenger boarding bridge for the A380 upper deck; all parking positions have parking markings for other types of aircraft. As of March 2013, many Emirates A380 and B777 flights are being operated from Concourse A. The new Concourse A cost 2.3 billion euros.
The cargo terminal called Cargo Mega Terminal , which is to be expanded by 2018, will handle an estimated volume of around 3 million tons of cargo.
About 45 kilometers to the southwest, Dubai-World Central International Airport opened for passenger flights in October 2013 . In the final stage, this will be the largest airport in the world. Despite its size, Dubai-World-Central is not intended to replace the local airport, but rather to complement it. The two airports are to be connected by the planned construction of a high-speed route for the Dubai Metro .
Traffic figures
| operating year |
Passenger volume |
Air freight ( tons ) |
Flight movements |
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| 2018 | 89.149.387 | 2,641,383 | 408.251 |
| 2017 | 88.242.099 | 2,654,494 | 409.493 |
| 2016 | 83.654.250 | 2,592,454 | 419.654 |
| 2015 | 78.014.838 | 2,506,092 | 403.517 |
| 2014 | 70,473,893 | 2,423,677 | 353.507 |
| 2013 | 66,431,533 | 2,435,567 | 369.953 |
| 2012 | 57,684,550 | 2,279,624 | 344.245 |
| 2011 | 50.977.960 | 2,199,750 | 326.317 |
| 2010 | 47.180.628 | 2,270,498 | 292,662 |
| 2009 | 40,901,752 | 1,927,520 | |
| 2008 | 37,441,440 | 1,824,991 | |
| 2007 | 34,340,000 | 1,668,505 | 260,530 |
| 2006 | 28,788,726 | 1.410.963 | 217.165 |
| 2005 | 23,607,507 | 1,333,014 | 195,820 |
| 2004 | 21,711,883 | 1,111,647 | 168,511 |
| 2003 | 18,062,344 | 928.758 | 148.334 |
| 2002 | 15,973,391 | 764.193 | 134.165 |
| 2001 | 13,508,073 | 610,867 | 141.281 |
| 2000 | 12,321,000 | 562,591 | 141.281 |
Transport links
Downtown Dubai is connected to the airport by road. To the southeast, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road touches the airport, via which the northern emirates Sharjah , Ajman , Umm al-Qaiwain and Ra's al-Khaimah as well as - in the opposite direction - Abu Dhabi can be reached. The streets in the catchment area of the airport are often filled with traffic jams due to the generally high volume of traffic in Dubai.
In addition, the Dubai Metro drives the airport south via the stations Terminal 1 and Terminal 3 with the red line and north with the green line.
Incidents
- On March 14, 1972, an intact Caravelle 10B3 from Sterling Airways ( aircraft registration number OY-STL) flew on its approach to Dubai Airport in a hill about 500 meters high in the Emirate of Fujairah , about 80 km east of the airport (CFIT, Controlled Flight into Terrain ) . The medium -haul aircraft was on the flight from Colombo-Bandaranaike Airport via Bombay to Dubai and, after a refueling stop, was supposed to fly on via Ankara to Copenhagen . All 112 people on board - including six crew members - were killed. It is the most serious accident involving this type of aircraft.
- On October 16, 1977 the hijacked Boeing B737 "Landshut" of Lufthansa was refueled here. In addition, the pilot Jürgen Schumann was able to testify here about the number of hijackers, etc., but when he got back on the plane, he was murdered by the terrorists. (see kidnapping of the Landshut )
- On March 12, 2007, the nose landing gear collapsed during the take-off of an Airbus A310-300 operated by Biman Bangladesh Airlines ( aircraft registration number S2-ADE) at Dubai Airport . There were no casualties among the 250 people on board, but the machine was irreparably damaged and later scrapped.
- On August 3, 2016, a Boeing 777-300 with the registration number A6-EMW had an accident while landing in Dubai. The machine operated as Emirates flight 521 from the Indian Trivandrum and had 282 passengers and 18 crew members on board. Everyone was able to get to safety using emergency slides. The plane burned out completely. The cause of the accident is not yet known.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
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- ^ Accident report Caravelle 10B3 OY-STL , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 5, 2019.
- ↑ Accident report A310 S2-ADE , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 31, 2019.
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Crash landing of an Emirates plane in Dubai. In: tagesschau.de. Retrieved August 3, 2016 .
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