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exclusively used. Road transport is very limited outside Male’ and Hulhumale’ and is only included in passing in this analysis. V. Air Transport Aviation transport is limited to just one gateway: MIA. It is the only international airport in the Maldives. However, it is noted that the Gan Airport (Seena atoll) could be upgraded at a projected cost of USD 17 million. This airport already has a new terminal building designed to handle customs procedures. Customs officers are also in place. MIA’s single 3200m runway (aligned north-south) is not provided with parallel taxiways, so aircraft are obliged to pushback onto and taxi on the active runway. Its length and width imposes restrictions for the take-off a fully laden Boeing 747-400 freighter, and will certainly not be adequate for the future Airbus A380 series aircraft. Turning areas are provided at either end of the runway. In peak periods, the consequence is that arriving aircraft sometimes have to orbit, or departing aircraft delay their pushback, until a preceding inbound or outbound flight has cleared the runway. Most traffic is executed in the 6-hour period from 7:30am to about 1:30pm; this suggests a runway intensity of four to five flights per hour during that period, which is close to the maximum that can be expected from a single runway, given the operational constraints. Extending the capacity to cater for wide-bodied aircraft is possible but expensive. It will require the construction of a new runway in parallel to the existing one. A positive side effect is that the current runway will serve as a taxiway and emergency substitute runway. Construction of a new, longer runway will therefore not only open the airport to additional, larger and heavier aircraft, but will simultaneously relieve some of the operational pressure on the runway. From an operational point of view, the biggest bottleneck at MIA is the size of the apron area, which cannot simultaneously accommodate five wide-body aircrafts. It also does not comply with ICAO requirements, which stipulate an unobstructed distance of 150m between runway and apron. An apron extension project planned to be undertaken during 2006 will enable aircraft to parked “nose in,” thereby achieving the requisite clearance, but will not otherwise increase apron capacity, the lack of which has already obliged some airlines to modify their flight schedules. Limitations to the MIA navigational and flight control equipment have operational constraints such as the difficulty of integrating VFR seaplane and IFR wide-body traffic; the need to push-back onto and taxi on the active runway; and the lack of radio coverage of seaplane traffic in the outlying atolls. Part of these may be solved when MAC in the near future installs a satellite-based MSSR radar system, with ADBS as a possible future enhancement. Thus the controller’s console will be able to display a moving picture of the protected airspace. The lack of radar coverage exacerbates operational constraints and results in excessive intervals between aircraft movements. 83
A new domestic terminal at MIA will soon open, in which arriving and departing passenger streams are separated. Phase IV of the Male’ International Airport Upgrading Project comprises the following elements: • Extension and alteration of the existing passenger terminal buildings. • Construction of a new control tower and associated ATS building and equipment. • Construction of a new energy centre and provision of diesel-powered electrical generating equipment and associated fuel storage. • Design and construction of an 11kV ring-main, including sub-stations. • Procurement and installation of a mono-pulse secondary surveillance radar system. • Procurement and installation of an extended VHF communication system. • Institutional strengthening and manpower development. It is noted that there is no cold or chill storage facility in operation at the MIA, and that the Phase IV project does not include such facilities. This is a major problem for the processors and exporters of fish products. Without chill and cold storage it is very difficult to schedule transports and to tap into the quality sensitive international lucrative markets for fresh on ice products for reef fish and other value added products. Air traffic at MIA can be divided into three sub-classes, as shown in the following Table 6.2: Table 6.2: Flight Activity Year 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Scheduled Flights 6,285 6,692 7,202 7,418 6,082 6,284 7,448 7,609 9,072 Charter Flights 968 1,244 1,316 1,267 1,145 809 594 922 1,123 Other Flights 460 634 468 560 464 596 661 645 853 All Flights 7,713 8,570 8,986 9,245 7,691 7,689 8,703 9,176 11,048 Source: Maldives Airport Company From a tourism development perspective, it is the route fights by the major international airlines that count, as these offer the flexibility and comfort demanded by tourists seeking an up market experience such as that offered by the Maldives. However, only four mainline carriers have MIA on their regular route net (Emirates, Qatar, Air Lanka, Singapore), but with limited numbers of flights per week. The fairly high numbers of schedule flights, approximately 80 per cent of all activity in the sector, serve almost exclusively the tourism industry. Growth over the period 1996 through 1999 averaged 6.6 per cent per year, and 10.9 per cent over the period 2000 through 2004, and for the whole-period averaging 5.4 per cent per year. Whilst this growth rate is satisfactory, it can hardly be described as spectacular. 84
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