Oil In The Brain, Pie In The Sky

Looks like some people have so many dollars that it's burning a hole in their pockets. Dubai is planning to build the world's largest airport: big enough to handle 120 million passengers per year, its size will roughly equal Chicago's O'Hare and London's Heathrow put together. Putting it another way, that's 19,200 football fields. And they're planning to do it fast - it's supposed to open in 2009.

For comparison, the world's three busiest airports in 2007 were Atlanta with 90 million passengers, O'Hare with 76 million and Heathrow with 68 million. Dubai came in at number 27 with 34 million.

Question: why will 120 million people be going or passing through Dubai (pop. 1.4 million) any time soon?

Hmmm... someone(s) is getting mighty cocky down there (a.k.a. oil = $135/bbl). They better check out the meaning of the word "hubris".