Dubai’s transport infrastructure has allowed the emirate to build on its status as a financial centre, the former leader of the City of London has said. Prof Michael Mainelli, who served as the City of London’s lord mayor in 2023 and 2024, said Dubai’s financial districts have maintained expansion mode as sustained growth at its international airport demonstrates. “As long as those air routes can be kept open, I don’t see that Dubai is going to have much of a problem,” he told The National.