Terminal 3 opening October

Dubai Airports has announced that a phased transitional opening of Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport will commence on October 14 2008. The opening will be implemented in 4 phases to ensure that the problems encountered at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 earlier this year are avoided.

Terminal 3 will be used exclusively by Emirates airline and will almost double the airport’s passenger capacity from 34 million passengers per year to 60 million. It is specifically designed to handle Emirates’ fleet of Airbus A380 jumbo jets.