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Easy: Direct international flights, particularly for tourism. For example, in Thailand, the airports of Phuket and Krabi are only ~2 hours apart by car, yet ca
by jpatokal 9y ago
Easy: Direct international flights, particularly for tourism. For example, in Thailand, the airports of Phuket and Krabi are only ~2 hours apart by car, yet cater to 15m and 5m pax/year respectively.
Now I'm sure it made no sense to build the airport at Sri Lanka's current stage of development, but as the country gets richer, it's almost certainly going to become useful sooner or later.