All around the world new airports are being built and existing airports enlarged in countries which appear to realise that the supposed ‘climate crisis’ and the need for Net Zero are just a load of nonsense.
The largest new airport project is probably in Dubai. Within 10 years Dubai’s main airport will move to a new desert mega-hub, projected to be the busiest on the planet. Located 28 miles south-west of Dubai, Al Maktoum International Airport will have the largest capacity of any on Earth, with the potential to carry up to 260 million passengers per year.
It will replace the existing Dubai International Airport, already the busiest in the world for international traffic, handling 87 million passengers in 2023. Given that the Dubaians are increasing the capacity of their airport from 87 million passengers a year to a massive 260 million passengers a year, it doesn’t look like they’re too worried about what the world’s greatest climatologist, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, calls “global boiling”. Just to put Dubai’s planned 260 million passengers a year capacity into context, Heathrow handles about 80 million passengers a year, Gatwick around 40 million, Manchester about 29 million and Birmingham just over 11 million.
In 2022, six new freight airports and 29 new general-purpose airports were built on the Chinese mainland, bringing respective totals to 254 and 399, according to a report from the Civil Aviation Administration of China. Moreover, an average of eight new airports are expected to open in the country every year for the foreseeable future, while more existing facilities are being expanded and upgraded.
Noida International Airport in Uttar Pradesh’s Jewar is set to be India’s largest when it is finally complete. Switzerland’s Zürich Airport International is in charge of building the project, worth an estimated $4 billion, with operations due to start in 2024. To begin with, it will open with a single runway and terminal building, with a capacity of 12 million passengers a year. But later phases of the construction could see capacity extend to 70 million passengers a year.
Poland is planning to build what has been billed as the country’s largest airport and one of the largest in Europe in Baranow county near Warsaw. The project involves building a passenger terminal railway stations and transport hub. It will initially be able to handle 40 million passengers a year.
Suvarnabhumi Airport (Bangkok’s main international airport) is adding two runways and a terminal, plus extending the existing terminal. This will increase its capacity to handle 150 million passengers annually, from the current 60 million. The estimated cost of this project is $3.7 billion.
Bangkok’s Don Mueang International Airport, used mainly by regional and budget airlines, will also undergo development, including a new terminal and building renovations. This expansion, projected to cost about $1.1 billion, will lift the airport capacity from 30 million to 50 million passengers per year by 2030.
In addition, Thailand is to start construction of its 290-billion baht ($8.8 billion) U-Tapao aviation city this year to handle over 65 million passengers a year. It involves turning the Vietnam-war-era U-Tapao airport into the third main international airport in the country. U-Tapao will link with a budget terminal, Don Muang airport, and the country’s main Suvarnabhumi airport. The project, called ‘Eastern Aviation City’ will cover 1,040 hectares and is expected to create 15,600 jobs.
Changi Airport Terminal 5 in Singapore has been designed with the “airport as a city” concept in mind, with each area a “series of neighbourhoods” with their own character. The project has required an injection of another $2 billion in investment and is estimated to cost around $10 billion in total. Construction is due to start in 2025, with the terminal operational by the mid-2030s. The project aims to add capacity of about 50 million passengers a year.
The construction of an $11 billion airport – Sangley Point international airport – in Manila Bay in the Philippines is gradually moving forward, after a consortium swooped in to bid for the work in 2021. Construction of a first runway, which is expected to take four years, will provide the airport with an annual capacity of 25 million passengers, before a second runway lifts that to 75 million.
In Vietnam construction of Vietnam’s $16 billion new airport – Long Thanh International Airport – in Ho Chi Minh City, billed as the most expensive infrastructure project in the country’s history, saw work on the runway start in late 2022. The first phase of the project involves building a new terminal and a 4km-long runway. Completion is due for 2025 and the airport will be able to handle 25 million passengers a year.
And while we’re on the subject of new airports, remember the Maldives? It’s the island chain which was supposed to disappear under the rising sea levels years ago. The Maldives is developing four new airports the largest of which is increasing annual passenger capacity from three million to 7.5 million:
Doesn’t look like the Maldives are too worried about supposed rising sea levels and ‘climate crisis’ either.
These are just a few of the many new airport projects being built around the world. Even if the U.K. wanted to build a third runway at Heathrow or to expand any other airports like Gatwick, that would probably be blocked for years by endless legal challenges from climate-catastrophist environmental groups on the grounds that increasing air travel capacity would risk derailing Britain from achieving its self-imposed, legally-binding, economically-suicidal Net-Zero targets. As for ever building a new airport anywhere in Britain – that is now unthinkable. In fact, not only are our dubious, plucked-out-of-the-air Net-Zero targets preventing us from building much needed new infrastructure like airports, roads, water reservoirs, power stations and such like, but they are also crippling our economy with some of the world’s highest energy prices, are destroying hundreds of thousands of jobs in manufacturing and associated industries as production moves to countries with lower energy prices and are driving us to national bankruptcy.
As much of the sane world builds a better future for its people, I suspect they are all laughing at our deranged Net Zero stupidity.
David Craig is the author of There is No Climate Crisis, available as an e-book or paperback from Amazon.
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Meanwhile the Just Stop Oil loons think they are making a difference and “saving the planet” by sitting in the middle of the road disrupting people’s lives.
They don’t understand anything except the crumbs of distorted information they are fed by their media devices.
Yep!. in the words of Tom Slater (Spiked) they are not revolutionaries, they are bigoted brats with an over powering sense of self worth. A product of an academic and upper class culture that promotes their intolerances and prejudices.
I started reading Sp!ked as far back as 2013 and read it everyday. But since 2021 I have only read a handful of articles, and some of those articles were published on here! They shot themselves in the foot maligning us “anti-vaxxers”.
Not forgetting Brendan O’Neill pushing mandatory injections for Care Home workers which resulted in me cancelling my subscription.
And he still hasn’t apologised.
Same here. I cancelled my monthly donation because of their intolerance of those who decided not to participate in a mass medical experiment.
As did I.
JSO makes it easier to introduce legislation restricting protests and promote UN 2030 goals.
They disrupt the public rather than focussing their efforts on government buildings and areas. By fault or design, they might as well be a government agency.
Yes they are the governments useful idiots. No wonder they don’t come down hard on them since they are doing the governments dirty work for them.
The last two paragraphs sum it up. National bankruptcy, financially and intellectually
We will be the next Third World. Hope they sent us some Foreign Aid!
Excellent peice of common sense Mr Craig
Presumably
those building all these new airports have factored in the loss in numbers of British tourists – there just won’t be any.
They will be celebrating in Tenerife. Well at least those who are not in the tourism sector, and that sector is large over there.
I do wish the Daily Sceptic would stop spreading such blatant lies / misinformation.
The area of the planet known as UAE has an average annual temperature of around 27 degrees Celsius, the UK 11.
This difference of 16 degrees is over 10 times greater than the 1.5 degrees C increase we have been assured by the Net Zero lobby would represent a catastrophic change from pre-industrial times.
So no human being could possibly exist in such an uninhabitable region, never mind be involved in massive airport construction projects…
Britain bemoans its lack of growth, the only way to provide a better standard of living for the least well off and to provide for the elderly and infirm, all the while regulating and stifling the private companies that would provide that growth.
And those who bemoan it the most are the ones who have, historically, done the most damage…’Blair’s Britain’……I give you our next mincing government……!
Dubai airport and many others have clearly demonstrated how infrastructure, airports drive growth.
Probably Britain does not need any new airports, only better infrastructure linking airports that already exist to major conurbations; better infrastructure like, for example, HS2 which, at its fullest extent would link, speedily, Leeds (kind of) and Manchester airports to London, obviating the need for more runways at Heathrow etc.
Where is there to be found a politician, a government, in this benighted land with some flocking vision…..?
Bunter had ‘Bunter Island’ as London Mayor, got to Westminster and became a Buntering Blancmange….Cherchez la femme!
Oh for heaven’s sake….!
Hmm … how can they now build airports in Dubai when they all became victims of climate change less than a fortnight ago, as Chris Packham claimed on BBC. Surely, Chris would never lie about something like this! Or would he … ?
But it is the West, and in particular Britain who started off the Industrial Revolution that has to retreat from prosperity the hardest and fastest. Because at UN level it is deemed we are the ones who benefited most and for the longest period of time from the use of fossil fuels which gives us the standard of living we now have. So with the full compliance of our United Nations lackey politicians we are to rid ourselves of fossil fuels faster than everyone else and they have even forced us in law to do so with the Net Zero Amendment in 2019 where no debate and no vote took place and the policy of impoverishing ourselves was simply waved through. —–This has NOTHING to do with climate and our own political class should be arrested for treason.
We dont need any industries or farms. Pure left wing madness.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/jacob-rees-mogg-has-a-cunning-plan-for-reducing-migration-363826/
Rees-Mogg is just another useful idiot. There is no food security plan in this country and hasn’t been since WWII. Creating food shortages is very much part of the reset agenda and if he is not aware of this he is another useless, blithering pillock.
Rees-Mogg doesn’t. As citizen of nowhere, he’s sufficiently affluent that he can live anywhere and have stuff delivered from anywhere else.
Not just laughing …. rubbing their hands in glee at our “leaders” stupidity.
If only we had a political party that exposed the risks and fallacies of Net Zero, and promised to repeal all the legislation that’s driving us towards bankruptcy. Sadly we are likely to get a Labour government that will make things much worse; at least the Conservatives were beginning to see the light. Oh, and Labour won’t fix the immigration issue either. There may be trouble ahead…
We do have such a party: Reform UK
Net zero is the greatest act of financial SELF-HARM ever imposed on the UK | Richard Tice – YouTube
Thanks to David Craig for gathering all that fascinating information about new airports being built all over the world in defiance of Net Zero, even in the Maldives, which we were all told would soon sink like Atlantis beneath the waves.