Dubai to spend $32 billion on airport expansion

Dubai's ruler has endorsed a $32 billion expansion plan for the city's second airport that officials envision will eventually become the worlds biggest, the Middle Eastern commercial hub's airport operator said Monday. The approval sets in motion a vast building project that aims to give the airport known as Al Maktoum International at Dubai World Central the capacity to handle more than 200 million passengers per year. The first phase of the expansion alone aims to build enough runway and terminal space to handle 120 million passengers a year and 100 of the double-decker Airbus A380 jets at any given time. The world's busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, handled 94.4 million people last year, according to AP.