United Arab Emirates: Emirates Network Control Center

United Arab Emirates Dept: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - It's 1 a.m. and the sprawling airport in this desert city is bustling. Enough languages fill the air to make a United Nations translator's head spin, according to Winnipeg Free Press. If it weren't for three ambitious and rapidly expanding government-owned airlines Emirates Airline, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways they might have never come to the Middle East and in this Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, photo. an Emirati technician works at the Emirates Network Control Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. For generations, international fliers have stopped over in London, Paris and Amsterdam. Now, they increasingly switch planes in Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi, making this region the new crossroads of global travel. The switch is driven by both the airports and airlines, all backed by governments that see aviation as the way to make their countries bigger players in the global economy. AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili Thousands of fliers arrive every hour from China, Australia, India and nearly everywhere else on the planet. Few venture outside the terminal, which spans the length of 24 football fields. They come instead to catch connecting flights to somewhere else. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.