The biggest airport in the world: what is it?

Have you ever wondered where the largest airport in the world is? And I would like to know what it looks like? What does a person feel when they find themselves in such a place?

The answers to these questions have interested me personally for a long time. Of course, the air gates of Moscow, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Amsterdam and Paris, too, inspire awe and respect, but, frankly, I would like something more.

The largest airport in the world. United Arab Emirates

The largest transport hub of the planet is Al Maktoum Airport, whose name in Russian sounds like Al Maktoum. It is located, which is not surprising, in Dubai. The building was built long enough, and at the very beginning of its existence, in 2010, it was used only as a cargo airport. After six months, the management of Al Maktoum manages to get a special certificate, which also allows for passenger flights.

What characteristics allow him to be considered one of the most impressive and famous in the world? I list at least some:

• The cost of this project is $ 33 billion.
• The area of Al Maktoum is 140 thousand km2.
• Freight throughput - 14 million tons of cargo per year. Passenger - 160 million people.
• The staff and staff is 750 thousand people.
• Its 92-meter tower is considered to be the highest in the entire Middle East.
• The only air port in the world, which has as many as six runways. The length of each is 4.5 km. In general, "Al-Maktoum" is designed in such a way that at the moment it is able to accept the most modern airliners.
• Al Maktoum boasts 19 terminals at once, 16 of which are cargo terminals.
• Its infrastructure includes a huge shopping center, four fashionable hotels, several two-story villas and luxury apartments in specially constructed 24-storey knowledge.

The largest airport in the world. Europe's record holder

If we are talking about Europe, then London "Heathrow" can not be ignored. As the largest air gate, it serves more than 1,300 flights daily. It is hard to imagine that every day here sit down and from here take off planes belonging to about a hundred airlines of the world and heading to about 190 different places on the planet.

The history of the name of this place is quite interesting. Originally there was a small English village called Heath Row. In its place, first built a military airport, mass used in the years of the First World War, and later, because of the uselessness of keeping so many military forces, it was converted into a passenger one.

To date, the largest airport in Europe has six terminals, one of which is purely cargo. The capacity is 45 to 70 million people per year.

The airport infrastructure allows meeting the needs of even the most capricious travelers. For example, on the territory of the third terminal is located one of the best airport bars Gray Goose Loft ("Loft Gray Goose"). This place is striking with the sophistication of novelties and the uniqueness of interior interiors, and the ingredients for cocktails are supplied here by the world's leading alcohol brands. At the same time, for those who wish to save on the entire territory of "Heathrow" you can meet a huge number of fast food restaurants and coffee machines.

In your spare time you can go to one of the shopping centers, visit recreation areas, use the service of Internet access, look into the offices of travel companies or use the car rental service.

The largest airport in the world. Russia's record holder

In terms of traffic Moscow "Domodedovo" is considered the largest airport not only in Russia, but also throughout Eastern Europe.

Over the past year alone, more than 28 million people have used its services. Today, the largest airport in Russia cooperates with 80 airlines, 38 of them are foreign, 27 are domestic, and 15 carriers have their main offices in the countries of the former USSR.

Flights from this airport are carried out in 240 directions. It should be noted that 79 of them are completely unique for the whole of the Moscow region, i.e. You can go to those directions only from "Domodedovo".