The world’s largest airport will launch with freighter operations in four months time with passenger operations being introduced at a later date, Paul Griffiths said.

“The freighter operation clearly will give us a good test of the operational facilities, the runway, the control tower and air traffic control. But we are not committing at this point in time to a definite date for passenger operations. But it will be at some stage in the future after the freighters have started [operations],” he told the paper.