President Abdulla Yameen has on Wednesday inaugurated the recently constructed Kudahuvadhoo Airport in Dhaalu Atoll.
Riolo Group developed the airport to have a runway that stretches 1,800 meters and an area of over 62 hectares.
The company has been previously quoted saying that the airport can accommodate to 42 aircrafts at once, where it had said that Dhaalu Airport would be the first Maldivian domestic airport to accommodate privately owned aircrafts.
The project was given to Riolo Group in 2013, and the airport will be operated by a company established solely for the task, named Dhaalu Airport Holdings.
President Yameen is to visit neighbouring Maaenboodhoo and Nilandhoo as well. The president is to inaugurate Maaenboodhoo’s new sewer system.
Yameen is to depart to Kulhudhuffushi island of Haa Dhaal Atoll after on the 12th of November.
