New brand identity for Dubai Airports
Operator to up use of technology in bid to boost traveller experience
Dubai Airports believes it can change customers’ experiences at the city’s two airports, even eliminating queues.
Yesterday the operator launched a new brand identity to reflect those goals, in a series of steps that will see Dubai Airports enhance its use of technology and introduce new concepts at Dubai International Airport and Al Maktoum Airport.
The new brand comes with a redesigned logo that bears the letters ‘DXB,’ with the X resembling an arrow to exemplify the connectivity that the airports aim to achieve. Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum,
Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, attended the event.
Shaikh Ahmad Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation and Chairman and Chief Executive of Emirates airline and Group, said the rebranding aims to focus on travellers and improve their experience.
Dubai Airports launched yesterday its new brand identity as it plans to introduce changes across its airports to improve the passenger experience.
The new brand, with a fresh logo bearing the letters DXB, will see the operator enhance technology at the city’s two airports and launch new retail concepts there. Dubai Airports said it aims to “eliminate” queues at airports and leverage its use of technology.
“Airports are changing, and what we wanted to do is make sure that we focused on the customer experience,” said Paul Griffiths, chief executive officer of Dubai Airports.
“We don’t want anyone to have to queue. The idea is we will gradually introduce new technology, which will make the processes very efficient and quick. Not only then do passengers not have to wait, that means they’ll have a far more enjoyable experience and we will get greater capacity out of our airports because everyone will be moving much more quickly.”
The changes will take “a few years to fully manifest” themselves across the airports.
Griffiths has long expressed his views about how airports around the world need to up their use of technology, painting a picture of his vision of how airports will look in the future — and it’s a significant difference from how they look today.
Vision
In a speech in May 2018, the CEO said he believes technology can remove the pain from travel by eliminating queues, document checks and long walks from one gate to another. He described a future where airports have no checkin desks, no immigration, and discreet security procedures that rely on technology such as facial scans.
Yesterday, Griffiths said he believes the new brand identity, together with improved technology, will help Dubai’s airports to get to that future.
“We’re doing all sorts of things with the transformation of the airport; the visual spaces, the new way we will board passengers on to aeroplanes — so much is changing because tech is delivering us the ability to create a far more enjoyable customer experience,” he said.