FOCUS The contract for the construction of Concourse 4 USD 816 million which is now being built next to Terminal 1 was awarded in February 2012 The completion date for this project is 2015 and it will raise the DXB total capacity to 90 million passengers To connect Concourse 4 with Terminal 1 Bombardier is building together with Dutco Balfour Beatty a 1 5 km long Elevated Automated People Mover track worth of USD 107 million Other ongoing Dubai projects include the expansion modernization of Terminal 1 USD 51 million completion date 2015 and Terminal 2 USD 153 million completion date 2014 in addition to four hangars for Emirates Airline USD 100 million The capacity of the Cargo Mega Terminal CMT at DXB is being expanded for USD 160 million in order to increase its annual capacity by 0 3 million to 1 5 million tons thus raising the DXB total cargo capacity to 3 1 million tons The cargo volume in 2013 was 2 44 million tons compared to 2 28 million tons in 2012 With the Expo 2020 award Dubai will accelerate the so far somehow slow moving development of the new DWC which is located near the planned Expo site The construction work on the DWC started in 2007 By 2020 DWC should be able to handle 160 million passengers and 12 million tons of cargo annually from which DWC is still far off According to official figures the DWC currently has a passenger capacity of 5 million expandable to a maximum of 7 million and a cargo capacity of 0 25 million tons expandable to 0 60 million tons Since 2010 freight operations at DWC are available 2013 0 21 million tons 2012 0 22 million tons The DWC offers a VIP service in the Al Majlis terminal for private jets since 2012 On 27 October 2013 very limited general passenger traffic was added Currently airlines which land in the DWC are Wizz Air Hungarian low cost airline Jazeera Airways Kuwait Gulf Air Bahrain Air Kyrgyzstan and Malaysia Airlines In 2013 a total of 65 197 passengers were handled at DWC Because of the award of the Expo 2020 there are speculations about a possible move of Emirates Airline to the DWC The Airline has declared that the decision of switching to the new airport is in the hands of the government According to a recent statement issued by Dubai Aviation City the government authority operating the DWC Emirates could wait to move its passenger traffic to the DWC until after 2020 However Emirates SkyCargo intends to start with partial relocation of its operations to DWC in spring 2014 Emirates has the lion s share of the total DXB passenger traffic with about 43 million in 2013 almost two thirds of the total UaE aIrPorT ProjEcTS IN ThE ImPLEmENTaTIoN aND PLaNNINg STagES SELEcTIoN project 1 Budget Mio US Status 3 project owner DwC Al Maktoum International Airport parent project 10 000 Execution DCA AUH Expansion Midfield Terminal Complex 2 960 Execution ADAC DXB Expansion Concourse 4 816 Execution DCA Al Ain Airport Military Maintenance Repair Overhaul Centre Hangars 800 Mubadala SHJ Expansion 400 Study SCAA AUH Expansion MTC Airside Construction 256 Execution ADAC Sweihan Air Base 200 Execution Spaceport Abu Dhabi 200 Study Virgin DwC Emirates SkyCargo Terminal 200 Execution DCA SHJ CAT 3 Runway 163 Execution SCAA DXB Terminal 2 Expansion 153 Execution DCA DXB Expansion Cargo Mega Terminal Expansion Sp281 61 Execution DCA DXB Terminal and Concourse 136 prequalification DAEp DwC Terminal and Concourse 136 prequalification DAEp DXB Emirates Airline Hangar 123 Execution EK Das Island Airport Terminal 75 Execution ADnOC AUH South Airfield Runway Rehabilitation 99 Execution ADAC AUH Midfield Terminal Complex Landside support facilities 60 Study ADAC DXB Terminal 1 Refurbishment 51 Execution DCA Aircraft Hangar near AUH 50 EpC AUH Terminal 3 Expansion A380 Stands Gate Room 50 Execution ADAC 1 AUH Abu Dhabi International Airport DXB Dubai International Airport DwC Dubai world Central SHJ Sharjah International Airport 2 ADAC Abu Dhabi Airports Company DCA Dubai Civil Aviation Authority SCAA Sharjah Civil Aviation Authority EK Emirates Group DAEp Dubai Aviation Engineering projects ADnOC Abu Dhabi national Oil Company Sources Press releases research by Germany Trade Invest MEED Projects MAJLIs ISSUE 12 7