The UAE has formed ‘Air Transport Infrastructure Quality Board’ chaired by Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy and Chairman of the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA).

The decision was taken at the first meeting of the Infrastructure Quality Council of the authority, which was attended by several UAE aviation decision makers and the Federal Authority for Statistics and Competitiveness, Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported.

The GCAA presented the strategies aimed to improve the UAE Air transport infrastructure in line with the vision of the UAE 2021 in its Golden Jubilee, and the indicators of the national agenda compared to the rankings of the UAE in the international indicators.

The UAE aims to achieve the first place in the index of transport infrastructure by 2021 in the World Economic Forum's annual survey, in which the UAE presently ranks third in the world.