{"id":9384,"date":"2013-08-10T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9384"},"modified":"2013-08-10T03:26:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T07:26:34","slug":"the-latest-middle-east-conflict-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-latest-middle-east-conflict-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Middle East Conflict: Airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/081013_0706_TheLatestMi1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nandagopal J. Nair wrote about yet another Middle Eastern conflict \u2013 the battle to have the best airport:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dubai, Doha, and Abu Dhabi are all about six hours away from two thirds of the world&#8217;s population and want to leverage this to become global travel hubs<\/li>\n<li>Dubai is currently in the lead. This year it became the second busiest airport in the world, and in 2015 it is expected to overtake Heathrow to become the busiest.<\/li>\n<li>The success of the airport has led to Dubai&#8217;s Emirates Airlines becoming the world&#8217;s third biggest airline.<\/li>\n<li>So many people go through the airport that Dubai Duty Free is expected to make $1.8 billion this year.<\/li>\n<li>But Dubai isn&#8217;t resting on its laurels. By 2020 it wants its airport to generate 22% of total employment and 32% of the emirate&#8217;s GDP.<\/li>\n<li>Qatar isn&#8217;t just going to take this sitting down though. It is building an airport in Doha which is two-thirds the size of the metropolitan Doha area.<\/li>\n<li>The airport will also have its own monorail network and a residential district to house the 200,000 employees who will work there.<\/li>\n<li>Never one to miss out on a good fight, Abu Dhabi is also trying to get in on the action. It is spending $3 billion on an international terminal to be opened in 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Aviation experts point out that there will soon likely be over-capacity in the region. Travelers are &#8220;only&#8221; expected to increase by 120 million a year \u2013 much less than the capacity that is currently being installed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The entire article is fascinating and a very good and easy read. You should go through it <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/113741\/airport-wars-are-underway-in-the-middle-east\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/113741\/airport-wars-are-underway-in-the-middle-east\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nandagopal J. Nair wrote about yet another Middle Eastern conflict \u2013 the battle to have the best airport: Dubai, Doha, and Abu Dhabi are all about six hours away from two thirds of the world&#8217;s population and want to leverage this to become global travel hubs Dubai is currently in the lead. This year it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/081013_0706_TheLatestMi1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9387,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9384\/revisions\/9387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}