List of airports in the Maldives
The list of airports in the Maldives contains international and regional airports and airfields in the Maldives.
At the airports, respectively, the characteristic data IATA Code, ICAO Code, use, on the island is the airport, the atoll, the County and the opening date and the operators.
The history of aviation is sufficient in the Maldives back to the Second World War, when the British on the naval base Gan a makeshift runway built, which was later acquired and expanded by the Royal Air Force. The first controlled by the Maldivian government airport was built in 1960 on the island Hulhulé near Malé. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, three small domestic airports were built to open up remote atolls. By 2010, all airports in the state were owned and state-owned enterprises were the Maldives Airports Company Limited ( MACL ) operated since the democratization of the country and the associated opening of the economy also privately operated airports are now possible. The economic opening triggered a building boom, so 2011/12, four new airports were built, and more are planned.
The Malé airport was officially named after the President Ibrahim Nasir, 2011.