Testing the waters: IGGA expands to Maldives

Male: Maldives, being an island nation scattered over roughly 90,000 square kilometres in the Indian Ocean depends heavily on sea and air transportation. Although local scheduled flights fly within the country to the three domestic and two international airports, Maldivians have been relying mainly on sea transportation to travel between the islands.
The local aviation sector still needs to be developed into a fully-fledged industry raising doubts whether Maldives has a potential market for aviation companies.
But more islands are being developed into resorts and more airports are expected.
InterGlobe General Aviation (IGGA), a group company of InterGlobe Enterprises based in India is trying to break the ground by expanding to Maldives. The company has signed an exclusive agreement with Pacific Aerospace to sell P-750 XSTOL (Extremely Short Take Off and Landing) aircraft in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and the Maldives.
In an exclusive interview with Haveeru, Nigel Harwood, President and CEO of InterGlobe General Aviation expressed his belief that “the company’s interesting product offerings would be ideal for the Maldives market,” and that “more aircrafts would fly in the country in the near future.”
02/05/10 Ali Naafiz/Haveeru Online

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Categories: Foreign May 2010, Indian Aviation- In General May 2010, New May 2010