I would be surprised if EK left the new DWC airport to all other airlines. DWC has a much better location, almost at the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. I bet EK would catch lots of business from EY if they moved there.

The quality of the photo is not very good, but you can still see how the cladding of the terminal building is progressing nicely. :)

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new to the forum,great pics.does the terminal open 2012?

Wikipedia quote:

Could open 2012. But this is Dubai here. Nothing ever opens in time. :)

Good news on the new F and J lounges. Hopefully this relieves the pressure on the overcrowded J lounge in T3/C2.

Here's another pic of the center part of the T3 concourse. Looks like there will be wide open spaces, with big people moving elevators like terminal three there.

I wonder if they will have the same water feature on the wall to ?

The lounges should also be close to this part of the terminal.

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You will love this episode of BBC's fast track program. It has a lot of coverage of T3's new concourse. One of the contractors will point out where the lounges will actually be.

I think this concourse will be even better than terminal 3. :)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programme...ck/9443769.stm

Good feature, a working link can be found here

Some pictures from the other side of the terminal.

You can notice that this side is a little behind the other side by just looking at the glass section's. This side has about three glass sections that are complete, where the other side of the terminal has six complete glass sections on each side.

You can also notice the yellow insulation, then they put the black water proofing before they finish it off with the silver/gray aluminum cladding.

Slowly, but surely both sides will meet in the middle.

I'll try to get some interior pics for you guys.

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Excellent report I thought. The phone-movie of people getting on A380 in Dubai is what I have experienced twice when being in J (I think they have sorted that now). There is a tendancy to call you out of the lounge even before they have opened the doors.

I went through T3 the first week that it opened and thought it was amazing. Gradually, over the next 2 years, it is already as bad as T1 was with conjestion. This is clearly a postive thing for Dubai however does not help us in the short term.

Although the new concourse due to open in 2012 will apparently assist, I doubt it. We may have one year before the same happens and conjestion occurs.

I must say, at the time I thought the Maktoum International 5 lane run-way (in addition to DXB) was mad, but given the loads etc, it is looking like a masterstroke.

Here's what worries me. Why is the F lounge on the level below the J lounge? It looks like it's getting narrower at the top, so does this mean the F lounge will be wider than the J lounge?

They seem to be making the same mistake as they did with T3, which is to have the lounges spanning the entire length of the terminal. And Brian LaBelle mentioned something about the lounge for Silvers moving to the new concourse, any idea where that's going to be?

I'm sure they're starting to think out side the box while this terminal is still in the building phase.

They still have a chance to figure out the problem, and make the lounges much larger than originally planned. We know the lounges will be locate in the middle/top section of the concourse. They should just raise the middle part a few more floors, but in an aesthetic way so it looks good from the out side, but in side they can add an extra lets say 50,000 m2 so they never have the same problem in this terminal. The elevator shafts are already located in that area, all they have to do is go up a little more.

The same thing can be done in T3, realistically that's the easiest way to solve the problem cause you can't go down, nor left, or right. Where else could they add space, any idea guys ?

My two cents worth.

Here you can see where the people mover will be located in the new concourse that will transport people to T3 under ground through a tunnel that was already built while they were building T3.

I can also predict a lot of congestion at passport control once the people mover, and new concourse goes into effect. They will share logistics such as passport control, and baggage claim which I think will be crazy once the airport hits 80 million pax/year.

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Passport control is already stupid crazy though I think they rarely operate all counters. And the Fast track is congested and poorly managed!

Future of Dubai on track: 250km of Metro lines & tramways planned

Aim is to connect two airports by rail; Green Line to be operational by this year end

By StaffPublished Monday, April 11, 2011


Dubai plans to extend the rail network to more than 250km from the current 75km by including tramways and more Metro lines by the next decade were revealed agains the backdrop of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) World Congress and Exhibition at the Dubai World Trade Centre

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Sunday inaugurated the congress.

Also present at the opening ceremony were Dubai Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Dubai Deputy Ruler Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of RTA, was quoted as saying by 'Khaleej Times' as saying that the aim of the rail network is to connect Dubai International Airport with Al Maktoum International Airport in Jebel Ali,

However, it is not yet decided which of the two Metro lines will connect the two airports, he added.

http://www.emirates247.com/news/emir...04-11-1.379558