New airport in Abu Dahbi with 660 million dollar

The civil aviation department in Abu Dhabi announced today the "building of a new airport in Abu Dhabi city to meet the requirement of the coming century."

The head of the engineering department in the circle Abdallah El-Naami stated that "building the airport comes within a plan of development that costs $ 660 million that includes building a new runway in the current Abu Dhabi international airport and improving it so that the two airports form an integral unit with modern facilities."

El-Noami added that an international bid for the project will be presented in the year 2001 to be ready for the work that will start in the year 2003, so that the capacity of the airport, currently 5 million passengers, can be increased.