Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: - The Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) today conferred the Award for “the development of airports in the Middle East” in 2009, at a gala dinner held at the headquarters of the Center for Aviation in the Asia and the Pacific (Kappa) in the Chinese capital Beijing , on the sidelines of the annual session of the awards of excellence for airports and the competent authorities the aviation industry.

The Excellence Award is granted yearly to recognize the developmental projects of international airports and motivate employees in the aviation sector to improve the functioning of operations and services provided to passengers and airlines alike different. The award is awarded to the International Abu Dhabi Airports Company in recognition of exceptional growth and outstanding achievements of Abu Dhabi International Airport, supported through the provision of quality services and of global standards to ensure the security and safety and comfort of passengers, as well as the ambitious strategic vision for the development of facilities to meet the capacity expected in the coming years to travel to Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

In this regard, Mr. George Krmanus, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Communications in Abu Dhabi Airports Company, said: “We are pleased to undermine Abu Dhabi Airports Company awarded the development of airports in the Middle East this year, as is the universal recognition of our achievements and our hard work for the advancement of processes and services Abu Dhabi International Airport, we give priority to passengers and our airline customers, the world has come a long way a lot of hard work and we have made great efforts to ensure access to quality services and a pioneer as we promised. “

Krmanus He concluded: “We have the Abu Dhabi Airports Company to significant progress in the work of expansion and development facilities, Abu Dhabi International Airport, where we were able this year to raise the annual capacity of the airport to about five million passengers, after the opening of the third passenger terminal at the airport. This is not only, we were able to complete the second runway of the airport in record time and run in October of last year. We are currently working to establish a new tower for air traffic control, which is scheduled for completion at the end of the year. We will work within the next few years to provide a supportive infrastructure building the new main airport, which will increase capacity to more than 20 million passengers a year. “

Further, the Abu Dhabi Airports Company over the past few years leading marketing services and excellence in the performance of its operations at the global level and succeeded in attracting new airlines and to ensure the comfort and security and safety of all passengers. Also saw the Abu Dhabi International Airport on a number of developments in the facilities and services, is provided to a number of self-registration kiosks to facilitate travel and offer passengers a free service and quick to use the Internet stations distributed across the terminals at the airport.

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Airports Company, Excellence Award, Mr. George Krmanus, United Arab Emirates