Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, will move its operations to the city-state’s second, sprawling airfield in its southern desert reaches “within the next 10 years” in a project worth nearly $35 billion, its ruler said Sunday.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s announcement marks the latest chapter in the rebound of its long-haul carrier Emirates after the coronavirus pandemic grounded international travel. Plans have been on the books for years to move the operations of the airport known as DXB to Al Maktoum International Airport at Dubai World Central which had also been delayed by the repercussions of the sheikhdom’s 2009 economic crisis.
ATL has 5. DEN has 6. DFW has 7. O’Hare has 8.
LaGuardia has 2, but they have a whole second international airport only 10 miles away. JFK has 4.
I guess I just happened to look up the ones that had fewer. Oops. Thanks.
Heathrow also has another five international commercial airports in the city region (all of which only have one runway, but one of those was until recently the busiest single-runway airport in the world).
Gatwick, City, Luton, Stansted and Southend, although the last of those is arguable. It calls itself London Southend so I’m keeping it.