It looks like work could soon be resuming on Dubai’s second airport, with the goal of making it the largest in the world. This could eventually become Emirates’ new home, though at this point there’s still a lot of uncertainty.
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The PKX of Dubai..... Until authorities give out a huge chunk of slots and subsidies, no one will want to act first.
This is the classic who can build the biggest and best competition between Saudi’s proposed King Salman International airport and Dubai’s proposal, both countries hoping to cash in on being a stopover hub in the ME.
With DXB nearing capacity again they'll have to move operations to DWC. You can already see it with cargo/freight/logistics operators moving down alongside new airlines being given slots down there. Will be interesting to see what happens to the surrounding area as it'll push housing prices up
If this airport is built out the way it looks in renderings I could easily see it becoming a white elephant like Mirabel or Ciudad Real. If they are using it as a reliever for DXB, they should keep it a smaller Ryanair-type LCC airport, gradually moving the LCCs that fly to DXB there (except for Flydubai since they are basically the narrowbody division of Emirates).
Awesome! ...for the whole 2 or 3 airlines who actually want to use it.
Dubai still hasn't made the decision on whether or not to shut down DXB once DWC is built out, and if so (as others here have already mentioned) it's doomed to follow the same path as Montreal, Osaka, Washington, and Milan-- with their large new airfields falling laughably short of expectations, due to the preexisting airport retaining premium traffic's interest.
Airport is a long way from Dubai!
@Be, your map of airports could have also shown how close SHJ Airport is to Dubai!
IST just added a lot of capacity, Saudi adding capacity (or saying they will), and now Dubai. Probably missing some other airport expansions as well.
Not sure if there will be enough demand to meet all the new supply
Is it possibly to connect DXB and DWC via high-speed train in 15-20 minutes or so? If it is, could it be treated as one airport with 2 terminals? I know this sounds crazy on the surface, but a 20 minute transfer is no different than the horrid buses at Heathrow, so if you can have 2 word-class airports broken up into smaller, more manageable sections, easily connected, then why not do it that way? If you can have a landside train and an airside train both then even better, so no matter how you are connecting it's quick and convenient.