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Dubai International Airport is a
fortress hub for Emirates airlines and has a large Duty Free shopping centre. Dubai airport has won many awards for its
excellence in design and services. A third terminal is currently
opened in 2006. The new terminal dedicated to Emirates airlines and
will fully support the Airbus A380. When completed this will double
the capacity of the airport.
A second
airport located at Jebel Ali—and a new free trade area within Dubai,
marking the centrepiece of the Jebel Ali Airport City—was announced
in 2004 and construction began in January 2005. Although initially
intended as a predominantly cargo airport, plans are afoot for the
new Jebel Ali airport to handle some 40 million passengers per annum
within 20 years.
Dubai
International Airport : The
airport is a hub to Dubai's international airline,
Emirates.
Because of
the many stores in the airport, it is considered a major place to
buy duty free goods in that country, which is in turn considered a
duty free shopping haven.
Dubai
International Airport will be replaced by Jebel Ali International
Airport.
History
Dubai
International Airport was conceived in 1959, when Sheik
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum first ordered construction. It was
inaugurated in 1960 with DC-3 plane flights and was home to nine
airlines. Today, the airport accepts all kinds of jets.
On 3 July
1988, Iran Air Flight 655, which was on a Tehran-Bandar Abbas-Dubai
route, was shot down by USS Vincennes between Bandar Abbas and Dubai
due to the aircraft overflying a combat zone. An estimated 300
people were killed in this incident.
On 28 July
2001, a man named Djamel Beghal was arrested at Dubai International
Airport while transferring from a flight from Pakistan to a flight
to Europe. Beghal admitted to being part of the Paris embassy attack
plot to UAE interrogators. The Al-Qaida suspect was taken to France,
where he recanted parts of his statement. The plot was dismantled by
French, Belgian, and Dutch authorities.
Part of the
airport's Terminal 3 collapsed on September 28, 2004 during the
construction phase. The terminal was designed by French architect
Paul Andreu. Andreu also designed Terminal 2E at Paris' Charles de
Gaulle International Airport, which collapsed on May 23,
2004.
The Airport
will undergo an expansion to allow two stations of the Green Line of
the Dubai Metro to be built within the complex. One station will be
constructed in Terminal 1 and the other in Terminal 3. The Metro
system is not expected to be fully operational until 2012. Dubai
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