Dubai seeks regional pact on airspace

Dubai has said he supports a regional agreement on air space more accessible to the Middle East booming civil aviation.

Most countries have large no-fly zones, for security reasons, and some of them may be opened for civilian aircraft on the basis of formal agreements, Dubai property top aviation official said.

Dubai airport, the company's international airport for Al Maktoum of Dubai and the upcoming International Airport, has hired a British firm NATS air traffic control services for the Study of airspace capacity in the emirate.

Aerial space limitations impede saw future growth of planes in the skies of the Middle East, where large-scale projects at the airport places as Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi are completed.

Some $ 37 billion airport projects currently in the Persian Gulf region, and carriers such as Etihad Airways, Qatar Airways and Emirates are seeking hundreds of new planes in coming years to serve their terms of expanding route network.

Paul Griffiths, Chief Executive Officer of Dubai property airport, said the potential of new infrastructure on the ground will continue to be used in regional coordination on air space is not achieved. "This is a serious problem, and I do not think that it is solved at this point in time," Griffiths said at the General Aviation Middle East conference in Dubai.

UAE consists of six airports in operation, one under construction in Dubai while one is planned in Ajman. Dubai International Airport is expanding its capacity from 25 million passengers per year to 75 million people.

The new airport at Jebel Ali is designed to have the capacity of Dubai property to handle 150 million passengers when fully ready. Abu Dhabi airport plans to eventually expand its capacity to 40 million passengers a year seven million at present.