{"id":94691713,"date":"2011-05-03T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/dubai-aims-to-be-top-international-airport-in-next-five-years\/"},"modified":"2011-05-03T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T11:45:00","slug":"dubai-aims-to-be-top-international-airport-in-next-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/dubai-aims-to-be-top-international-airport-in-next-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Aims to be Top International Airport in Next Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>Officials in Dubai aim to top London&#39;s Heathrow Airport within 5 years <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOfficials at Dubai International Airport claim they expect to handle 98.5 million passengers annually by the year 2020.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThough Dubai is currently the fourth busiest airport for international passengers, CEO Paul Griffiths expects the hub to knock London&rsquo;s Heathrow Airport from the top spot within four to five years, according to a recent AP report.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRapid growth by Dubai-based airlines like Emirates and FlyDubai seems to bolster Griffiths&rsquo; bold predictions.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDubai is also in the midst of building a second airport, Dubai World Central-Al Maktoum International, which will begin receiving passengers sometime in 2012. Upon opening, the airport will reportedly be able to handle a staggering 160 million travelers each year.&nbsp; &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/travel.usatoday.com\/flights\/post\/2011\/05\/dubai-outlook\/168533\/1\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Officials in Dubai aim to top London&#39;s Heathrow Airport within 5 years &nbsp; Officials at Dubai International Airport claim they expect to handle 98.5 million passengers annually by the year 2020. &nbsp; Though Dubai is currently the fourth busiest airport for international passengers, CEO Paul Griffiths expects the hub to knock London&rsquo;s Heathrow Airport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94691713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94691713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94691713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94691713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94691713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}