The world’s largest international airport will be built in Dubai , 5 parallel runways

Dubai : The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, announced on Sunday that his government has approved the final designs for a new passenger airport located 23 miles southwest of downtown Dubai that will one day become the new home of Emirates Airline with the ability to handle as many as 260 million passengers annually. The new passenger terminals at Dubai World Central Airport (DWC) will have a staggering 400 aircraft gates and will come at a cost of 128 billion Dirhams (US $34.87 billion).
Also known as Al Maktoum International Airport, the massive 35,000-acre site first opened in 2010 as a cargo airport, and a limited number of passenger flights started operating from a small passenger terminal in 2013.
The government of Dubai had originally planned to build out the airfield and move all operations from Dubai International Airport in the downtown Al Garhoud neighbourhood of the emirate by 2025, but funding problems have delayed the project on several occasions.

On Sunday, Sheikh Mohammed did not lay out an exact timeline for when the new passenger terminals would be completed, going only so far as to say that operations would be transferred from DXB to DWC within the next 10 years and with an initial capacity of 150 million passengers per year.
“We are building a new project for future generations, ensuring continuous and stable development for our children and their children in turn. Dubai will be the world’s airport, its port, its urban hub, and its new global center,” Sheikh Mohammed commented.