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aircraft. Staff costs are an increasingly chal-
lenging issue. Many handlers do not have the
luxury of recruiting local staff – there simply
is not the population – so large numbers of
expatriate colleagues are required. This is
beginning to become more of an issue as
employee related costs escalate."
With respect to the availability of airport
infrastructure in the Middle East, indeed,
it can be said it is both expanding and wit-
nessing some bottlenecks.
"Of course there is massive development
in some parts of the region, like in the
United Arab Emirates, with developments
at both Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The new Doha
International Airport is now on line and
Bahrain has extensive development plans.
Saudi Arabia also has identified a major need
to expand their airports and I see that coun-
try rapidly developing its airport network
in the coming years," says Conway. "Unfor-
tunately, there are no overnight solutions.
But there are plans to build and develop, e.g.
Dubai World Central will ultimately serve
over 200 million passengers per annum."
"When it comes to the 30-passenger
terminals on our watch-list, based on the
current capacity and annual growth rates,
we have 15 terminals which have already
reached full capacity today, one that will
reach full capacity by 2017, five by 2019,
three by 2020, two by 2021, three by 2023
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