Is Dubai really the new Las Vegas? Sure, if Vegas were in Texas, home of the world’s biggest everything — hair, belt buckles, gay churches. Dubai, the world’s fastest growing city, is building the world’s biggest airport (as well as the world’s tallest building, pictured).
The 54-square mile airport city, Dubai World Central, will be home to more than 250,000 people. With more parallel runways than Atlanta, Heathrow and Chicago O’Hare, it will process up to 12 million tons of cargo (3.5 times more than Memphis, the world’s busiest cargo airport) and 120 million passengers (35 million more than Atlanta, the current busiest).
Fortunately, any Atlantans who want to defect to the new capital of big can fly non-stop on Delta. On May 31 the airline will be the first U.S. carrier to serve the booming emirate. And in the future, arriving passengers won’t even have to leave the new airport. At ten times the size of its predecessor, Dubai World Central will provide shopping malls, a golf resort, and thousands of homes and office buildings.
Cost of infrastructure: $33 billion. Saying you have the world’s biggest, busiest, most cargo-filled, runway-paved airport: priceless (with due apologies to Mastercard ads).
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