The development of the new €2.2 billion ($3.2bn) Ajman International Airport, which will begin in 2008, will create 28,000 job opportunities as well as many new development opportunities and construction jobs, according to the airport area's master plan.
The work, being carried out by a Spanish consortium in a Build Operate and Transfer contract, will see the United Arab Emirates' fourth international airport built as part of an international "PlaneStation" concept that will include 30 airports around the world, bringing tourists and business travelers to the booming Middle East. The PlaneStation concept puts the Middle East as a central link in the world's first network of regional airports in a plan to open up new routes, avoid flight delays and at the same time generate new business and jobs.
Being constructed over six million square metres in six stages, Ajman airport will house a passenger terminal comprising arrival and departure lounges, a school for staff training, commercial region, office spaces and housing units.
The master plan for the airport also highlights a link by a new monorail to the seafront town of Al Zoura, which would give rise to a resort area featuring about 30 hotels, water front villas and shopping centres.
Amjin airport will be one of 11 airports to be built in the Middle East in the near future. Other airports either planned or already under construction include two in both Egypt and Iran, and new airports in Morocco, Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
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