What immediate changes are needed to establish a demand for direct flights to operate to other airports in Maldives?
1- Culture and mind-set needs to change at decision making level. With fair competition only demand and supply will reach its natural or economic equilibrium
2- Application of “Diversity Inclusion Approach” for Economic development has to be applied. At Political level de-centralization is happening. But this approach to cascade into economic development needs to be materialized
3- Recognition and appreciation that centralized distribution of traffic is costly and time consuming - it’s bad for regional development of the economy.
4- Need to stop thinking that 98% of all international traffic as to come to Maldives - At Policy level it’s important to identify potential zones where you have adequate bed capacity where international air traffic can be justified
5- Destination markets need to be identified for selected zones
6- An assessment should be carried out to establish the capacity for traffic, potential demand for the traffic and destinations should be identified