On Wednesday, the U.K. government backed construction of a third runway at Heathrow, a decadeslong debate for the airport. However, Griffiths said that he remained confident Dubai would remain ahead.

The airport will feature five parallel runways, 400 aircraft gates, and state-of-the-art technology to handle up to 260 million passengers per year.

Diehl has opened its new facility in the Dubai Airport Freezone, a 1,100 m2 area in the logistics hub of the airport's free ...