Dubai can delay the achievement of the world 'airport of S of largest with beyond 2015 and build a track less than envisaged, and the deadline 2010 for its first flights could also be given, the operator of the project said.
Because the continuous total economic crisis to eat in growth rates of air traffic, the senior officer Paul Griffiths of the airports Co (DAC) of Dubai indicated the Reuters news agency in an interview that the phase one of the project of international airport of $10 billion Maktoum, which will see it handling freight, can miss its fixed date of achievement of June 2010.
The first flights of cargo had at the beginning due to take off of the new airport in mid-2008.
DAC planned to develop equipment in Dubai 'with the existing airport of S to treat the additional traffic until the new airport opens, he said in a recent interview.
If we can buy more time with this airport by using our equipment indeed. then we can have the luxury to be able to defer the opening slightly or to continue to actuate it on, of program Reuters called by Griffiths Tuesday, adding that a decision would be made into two or three weeks 'time.
The airport existing sudden also an expansion which includes plans so that a new track adapts to air lines of Emirates 'the superjumbos A380, of which it ordered 58.
In April, a business $1.3 billion envisaged with the Australian possessions Leighton of company of technology to build the track was reinforced, but Griffiths indicated that the project would advance and would be accomplished within the times at the end of 2011.
Dubai, the area of Gulf the 'trade of S and the hub of tourism, were catapulted in international fires of the slope during a pole of six years construction with projects such as the world 'the largest tower of S and the synthetic islands in the form of slings of palm.
As tourists and expatriates flooded inside and the trade thundered, it also embarked on projects of infrastructure; a subway is in construction and a terminal for passengers opened in Dubai 'with the existing airport of S, already the Middle East 'the S most occupied.
But while the international airport of Dubai east one of some principal airports in the world to bring back to any growth traffic this year because the total blows the trade and tourism of reduction, growth rate fell clearly.
The traffic raised 2 percent to 9.5 million with passengers in the first quarter, to the bottom abruptly of a rise in 15 percent in the same period in 2008 and 17.7 percent in growth in January March 2007.
Compar� with each simple airport in the 10 principal ones in the world we are only who record the positive growth, the Griffiths known as. Investment in our continuous infrastructure.
But one expects that maintaining the new airport has five active tracks rather than six as at the beginning envisaged, although it is always can accomodate up to 160 million completely operational passengers as envisaged once, it said Reuters.
The second phase of the new airport will see that handling the inexpensive charter and carriers to him and Griffiths indicated in which are accomplished second half of the following decade, 2015 and after , without being more specific.
We decided that precipitation to achieve the wouldn 't obtain the good quality of the service and as because we 'the VE made a more effective use of this airport as the need to have this additional capacity to us the 'VE driven back two or three, years he said.
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