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First phase of new Dubai airport delayed

The opening of the first phase of the world's biggest airport, being built in Dubai, has been put back because of delays in construction, the head of Dubai Airports said. Speaking with news agency Bloomberg, Paul Griffiths, CEO, Dubai Airports said, “Dubai World Central will open in 2010 instead of before the end of this year due to a number of factors mostly relating to the readiness of infrastructure and the capability of Dubai International to cope with existing traffic. The airport's first of the six runways was scheduled to open last year.

There is no pressing hurry to open the first phase of the airport, which will be ten times the size of the existing Dubai International, according to Griffiths. Dubai International, which can handle up to 60 million passengers, expects a positive growth in traveller numbers in 2009, after a nine per cent increase last year to 37.4 million passengers. Once completed, the airport, which is supposed to have six concourses and two terminals, is expected to handle 120 million passengers a year - making it the world's largest Greenfield airport development.

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