Another angle of the Concourse D construction.

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Pic taken by AppleMac.

This is the section of Concourse D you see being built in the last three pics, and the angles they were taken from.

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http://gulfnews.com/business/aviatio...ubai-1.1150921

Connectivity on all fronts a trump card for Dubai.

A little off topic, but still a lot of talk regarding Dubai's two airports. What is interesting here is the fact if Dubai manages to get the 2020 World Expo passenger numbers will skyrocket through the roof at Dubai's airports. We would also see the Dubai Metro Purple line fast tracked which should connect the two airports, not to mention the Expo would be located around Jebel Ali, right next to DWC.

http://www.emirates247.com/news/emir...02-05-1.493878

Dubai Airport Terminal 3 systems restored: Trains to Concourses A, B back on track.

This happened three weeks ago on Feb 5th, 2013. A friend posted this on another forum, looks like it slipped between the cracks.

Dubai International starts 2013 with new passenger record
 

Dubai International has begun 2013 in top gear, setting yet another monthly record by welcoming, for the first time, more than 5.5 million passengers in a single month.

According to the traffic report issued by Dubai Airports today, passenger traffic rose 14.6% to 5,559,760 in January 2013, up from 4,852,139 in the same month in 2012.

Aircraft movements totalled 31,332 in January 2013, climbing 5.6% from the 29,680 movements recorded in January 2012.

Most markets were boosted in January by holiday traffic as well as visitors to the Dubai Shopping Festival.

Regionally, South America remained the fastest-expanding market in terms of percentage growth (+23.7%), followed by the GCC (+21.8%), Australasia (+21.3%) and North America (+20.8%). The Middle East was the only region to record fewer visitors (-6.5%) with traffic impacted by continuing political instability in Iran and Syria.

In the GCC, January's traffic numbers was largely driven by a 46.2% year on year surge in passenger numbers from Saudi Arabia. At 386,698 visitors, the Gulf state was the fastest-growing country in percentage terms in January 2013 among Dubai International's top 20 country destinations. It was also second behind India in actual passenger numbers. Passengers from India totalled 751,688 in January 2013, up 14.8% from the same month last year.

Air links continue to be expanded between Dubai and Saudi Arabia with Emirates, flydubai, Nasair and Saudi Arabian Airlines all adding new flights in 2012. During the year Emirates added new flights to Jeddah, Dammam and Riyadh while flydubai expanded its network to include Jeddah, Dammam, Riyadh, Taif, Yanbu and Tabuk. Saudi Arabian Airlines, meanwhile, added flights from Medina and Riyadh to Dubai and low-cost airline Nasair introduced links between Riyadh and Dubai.

Freight volumes also rebounded in January 2013, surging 8.6% to 188,520 tonnes, up from 173,531 tonnes recorded in January 2012. The latest data signals a return to robust growth in cargo volumes at Dubai International, the increase supported by improved consumer confidence in the US and Europe.

"January's record passenger numbers confirm that the growth trajectory recorded last year has continued into 2013 and Dubai Airports has taken another steady stride towards the 98 million passengers a year we expect to pass through our airport by the end of the decade," said CEO Paul Griffiths.

"The near perfect timing of Concourse A's opening has allowed us to increase our capacity to 75 million passengers a year and make sure we can continue to accommodate the rising number of people who chose to fly through Dubai International. It is also a strong endorsement for our $7.8bn SP2020 expansion plan which will allow us to remain one step ahead of our expected growth by increasing our capacity both on the ground as well as in the air," he added.

http://www.ameinfo.com/dubai-interna...-record-331185

Nice view of a few SJs lined up to each other at CA.

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Pic taken hannes meyer/airliners.net

A little off topic, but still a very important bit of information to EK pax. The record breaking JW Marriott Marquis Dubai Tower Hotel has finally opened up in Business Bay a long SZR. We had been following this project from the start, and since it's owned by the Emirates Group I think it should also be posted. One tower will be the hotel, and the other will house EK employees. This will also be part of the EK FFP. This also takes EKs offering to the next level, a long with the opening of CA earlier this year. One of the reason Emirates Group had weaker earnings last year was because of financing this project.

http://gulfnews.com/business/tourism...ubai-1.1151310

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Here is one of the original renders of how the buildings will look like at night. They have such an Asian feel to them.

So let's see who can guess the month when DXB will break the six million pax number ?

March.

I stayed there in December. I didn't realise it was an Emirates hotel also. I did a trip report on the Marriott forum.

Wow! Unbelievable! This will becomes 6 millionth passengers who pass through DXB hub.

June

We will know in a few weeks.

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It could very well happen in June, if not then high season in the summer should do it. December for sure should see six million pax.