DTIS, Volume I - Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF)

E. AIR TRAVEL SUPPORT
The table below summarizes critical issues in regard to air travel support for the tourism
sector.
Constraint
Insufficient investment in airport navigation
and safety equipment
Need
Survey the needs and requirements
in respect of navigational, safety
and other support facilities at
Male’ International Airport to
ensure top-class airport and
aviation facilities to service
international air services.
Survey options for attracting more
scheduled commercial flights
through invitation of high profile
aircraft operators such as like
Virgin, or through financial
guarantees for certain agreed load
factors
Detailed analysis required of
current proposal to establish a
national airline jointly with the
private sector and a foreign airline
to avoid waste of investment
Two regional airports are built at high
standards with 1,200 m tarred runway. But
this is insufficient for long haul carriers
There are few airstrips at atoll level to
distribute tourist arriving at Male’ or (in the
future) from regional airports, which has led
to the use of amphibian planes to service the
resorts.
Insufficient coordination in use of aircraft
between wheel-based Island Aviation
Services and the two domestic charter
airlines, both using same types of seaplanes
Regional airports should be upgraded
to handle international
wide-bodied aircraft, i.e. the
runways extended and navigational
and safety equipment up-graded, in
step with the development of
tourism resorts in the regions.
Survey the options for establishing
more and cheaper regional airports
or airstrips suitable for smaller
STOL (short take off and landing)
aircraft.
Survey the options for
standardizing the aircraft used by
both the public and private
domestic airlines.
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