Dubai Airports to re-open key terminals on June 24

Published 20 Jun,2021 via Arab News - Economy DUBAI - Dubai Airports said it will re-open its Terminal 1 and Concourse D facilities this week as the emirate seeks to kick start its vital aviation sector.

It said the two facilities would-re-open on June 24 while at the same time the operations of some 66 carriers would be moved from Terminal 3 to Terminal 1.

The move will boost the airport’s PCR testing capacity and also raise overall potential capacity by about 18 million passengers, Paul Griffiths, CEO of Dubai Airports told Bloomberg TV on Sunday.

“We are anticipating a huge surge in inbound and outbound demand over the next few months,” he said.

The airports chief said that he expects to have recovered about 90 percent of original capacity by the autumn as more carriers restore services in and out of the key international hub.

Dubai International Airport is the world’s busiest when measured by the number of international passengers, handling about 89.4 million passengers in 2019.

India, the UK and Saudi Arabia are the biggest source of passengers passing through the hub.

“The cautious opening up of South Africa, Nigeria and India clearly will open some transfer flows across DXB International as we retain our crown as the world’s busiest airport all the way through the pandemic, which we have been for the last seven years,” he said.

The airport boss said the re-opening of the two facilities would provide a major boost to the airport’s testing capacity as demand recovers.

“We are looking at alternative methods to give an even faster result and of course the validation of vaccine certificates is something that we are looking at along with IATA and various other countries to make sure that we’ve got a very fast and efficient way of checking passengers as they arrive in the significant volumes that we are anticipating over the summer,” he said.

Copyright © Saudi Research & Publishing Co. All rights reserved. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info)

DISCLAIMER: This content is provided to us “as is” and unedited by an external third party provider. We cannot attest to or guarantee the accuracy of information provided in this article from the external third party provider. We do not endorse any views or opinions included in this article.