{"id":1445,"date":"2013-02-20T11:09:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T11:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelcenteruk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2025-05-29T06:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T05:27:06","slug":"dubai-airport-unveils-worlds-first-airbus-a-380-concourse-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/dubai-airport-unveils-worlds-first-airbus-a-380-concourse-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Airport Unveils World\u2019s First Airbus A-380 Concourse A"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/a-day-to-enjoy-in-dubai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Dubai<\/strong> <\/a>Airports and Emirates open the world\u2019s first purpose-built facility for Airbus A 380 aircrafts \u2013 Concourse A to the public. Comprising 11 floors and total built up of 528,000 sq meters, Concourse A also features Emirates\u2019 world class First Class and Business Class lounges, 20 A 380 capable contact gates. In addition, passengers are welcome to enjoy duty free shopping area and a Le Clos wine cellar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emirates as the largest operator of this aircraft in the world, the president of Emirates airline, Tim Clark proudly states the opening of the Concourse as one of the biggest milestone in the airline\u2019s history. The CEO of Dubai Airports, Paul Griffiths provided a statement highlighting the importance of the USD 7.8 billion investment on Dubai International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At present, the airline features a fleet of 31 Airbus A 380s and another 59 aircrafts on order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai Airports and Emirates open the world\u2019s first purpose-built facility for Airbus A 380 aircrafts \u2013 Concourse A to the public. Comprising 11 floors and total built up of 528,000 sq meters, Concourse A also features Emirates\u2019 world class First Class and Business Class lounges, 20 A 380 capable contact gates. In addition, passengers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[683],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements-travel-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41567,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/41567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}