North Bali airport: part two – finding the right business model and route network strategy

In what is possibly, finally, becoming a 'post-COVID world', governments and private sector airport operators alike have some hard decisions to make about airport infrastructure that have been put aside for close to three years.

One of those places is the Indonesian island of Bali - one of the most popular tourist spots in Southeast Asia, where the existing airport was crowded and constrained before the pandemic.

The arguments for and against going ahead cancel each other out, and this latest hiatus might be used as an opportunity not only to select a precise location, but also to identify what it's raison d'être is, beyond merely "relieving congestion" at the existing airport.

Much has changed in the past three years. Understanding - as far as possible - of where the industry is going is of paramount importance in any cost-benefit calculation about greenfield infrastructure.

This is part two of a two-part report.