Dubai, UAE: New Al Maktoum Airport Initiates For Removing 'lazy Operator Syndrome'

There would be many points of security and passport control throughout the airport, thus eliminating all sorts of bottlenecks.

Smaller walks, no queues, and no crowding in Dubai's new International Airport Al Maktoum would reimagine how airports work. "We want to get the intimacy of travel back," according to Paul Griffiths, the CEO of Dubai Airports. We would eliminate most legacy elements that exorcist in airports that have existed for a long time."

Griffiths said this at a panel discussion at the International Air Transport Association's annual growth meeting, which concluded in Dubai.

Manifesting the way airports work

He said that the current system of passengers from various parts of the world being forced to go through a single point of security and immigration was caused by airport operators being "lazy." "It creates queues distances and wastes time," he said. "It is what I call the lazy airports operator syndrome."

According to him, the new Al Maktoum International Airport, which is expected to be functional in 10 years, will re-engineer the way airports work to make it easy for travellers. There would be many points of security and passport control throughout the airport, removing all sorts of bottlenecks. Also, Griffiths said that passengers at the airport would not need to queue up for any travel-related formalities.

"We will not force them to stand in queues," he said. "The idea is to enable new techniques and technologies to make the airport experience as seamless as we possibly can." as per Griffiths, the airport would be built with a lot of care, harnessing the power of technology. "The trick to building a 21st-century airport is that with technology moving so quickly, how can we create an infrastructure advance that hasn't even been conceived yet? So it is a big design challenge, and I think we can make great progress," he said. He added that sustainability would be central to the new airport's design. "We will be choosing different ways of personal mobility that are far more sustainable than what we know today."

The potential and power of solar energy to power the airport were also being explored. "There is enough solar energy here in the UAE to power most of the city," he said. "There is even a way of storing energy efficiently by cooling water and storing it in underground tanks so that it can be used at night to cool the buildings. We are already looking at plenty of advances in great detail."

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