Development goals [March 16 2013] Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Ltd. has identified the following potential investment opportunities that are being offered to prospective investors under the Stage I development program of the airport.

Aviation training
a. Pilot training
b. Aeronautical engineering

Aviation-related industries
a. MROs (Maintenance, Repair and Overhauling)
b. Livery services
c. Aircraft manufacturing
d. Aircraft storage parking
e. Component manufacturing
f. Flying clubs

Hospitality
a. Hotels
b. Recreation activity providers - ballooning
c. Hospitality training schools

Utility providers
a. Renewable energy
b. Water supply - desalination/waste water treatment

Warehousing facilities
Aerotropolis

Aviation-related services
a. Fuel farms
b. Bunkering services for private parties

Food processing Other aviation-related industries