National airline, Maldivian, has on Thursday conducted test flights at the Dhaalu Airport, on Kudahuvadhoo island of Dhaalu atoll.

Senior members of the government and a number of parliamentarians had participated in the event.

Riolo Group developed the airport to have 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. 

Dhaalu Airport Holdings had allowed a group of teachers along with their students and other residents of the island to have a first look at important areas of the airport.