World's largest passenger and cargo hub
Information website:
almaktouminternationalairport.eu
Price: $10 – $80 billion
At 140 square kilometers (54 square miles), the land set aside by former Dubai ruler Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum 30 years ago for the visionary $33 billion urban aviation project is almost twice the size of the island of Hong Kong. The heart of this new city, known as Dubai World Central, will be the Al Maktoum International airport. Upon completion, it will be the world’s largest airport, bigger than London’s Heathrow and Chicago’s O’Hare combined.
The airport will eventually have an annual capacity of about 120 million passengers and 12 million tons of cargo. London’s Heathrow airport, the world’s busiest international airport, handles about 68 million passengers annually. Memphis and Hong Kong, the world’s top cargo hubs, deal with about 4.5 million tons of cargo each year.