Bigger Clark airport planned
By Jonathan M. Hicap, MT Reporter
The Manila International Airport Authority will expand the operations of the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (formerly Clark International Airport) to enable it to handle more passengers.
At a roundtable with The Manila Times Wednesday, Alfonso Cusi, MIAA general manager, said he is waiting for regulations in carrying out Executive Order 341, issued by President Arroyo in August 2004 and giving the MIAA direct supervision and control of seven additional international airports in the country.
Besides Diosdado Macapagal, MIAA supervises the Laoag International Airport, Subic Bay International Airport, Mactan-Cebu International Airport, Francisco Bangoy International Airport in Davao, General Santos International Airport and Zamboanga International Airport.
The President authorized the MIAA to act directly on matters involving the management, operation, maintenance or development of any of the international airports in the Philippines.
The MIAA can also direct any of the officials of the international airports to perform their duties or retrain the commission of acts; and review, approve, reverse or modify acts and decisions of the governing board, officials or units of all the international airports.
The MIAA also has the power to determine priorities in the execution of plans and programs, and to prescribe standards, guidelines, plans and programs.
The Arroyo administration is pushing for the development of the DMIA as it declared Subic and Clark priority development zones.
The MIAA said major airlines are interested in operating at the DMIA. Budget Airline Air Asia has started flying from the DMIA to Malaysia. Tiger Airways also flies from the DMIA to Singapore.
The MIAA sees a need to increase the passenger capacity of the DMIA from 1.5 million to 3.5 million a year when it completes the expansion project by 2007.
Leasing of land in the DMIA aviation complex has been temporarily stopped until a new land-use master plan is finalized.
Cusi said that with the President’s new executive order, resources from the MIAA’s earnings from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport can go to upgrading the facilities of the seven other airports.
He said the NAIA and the Mactan-Cebu International Airport are the only earning international airports in the country.
The Manila International Airport Authority will expand the operations of the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (formerly Clark International Airport) to enable it to handle more passengers.
At a roundtable with The Manila Times Wednesday, Alfonso Cusi, MIAA general manager, said he is waiting for regulations in carrying out Executive Order 341, issued by President Arroyo in August 2004 and giving the MIAA direct supervision and control of seven additional international airports in the country.
Besides Diosdado Macapagal, MIAA supervises the Laoag International Airport, Subic Bay International Airport, Mactan-Cebu International Airport, Francisco Bangoy International Airport in Davao, General Santos International Airport and Zamboanga International Airport.
The President authorized the MIAA to act directly on matters involving the management, operation, maintenance or development of any of the international airports in the Philippines.
The MIAA can also direct any of the officials of the international airports to perform their duties or retrain the commission of acts; and review, approve, reverse or modify acts and decisions of the governing board, officials or units of all the international airports.
The MIAA also has the power to determine priorities in the execution of plans and programs, and to prescribe standards, guidelines, plans and programs.
The Arroyo administration is pushing for the development of the DMIA as it declared Subic and Clark priority development zones.
The MIAA said major airlines are interested in operating at the DMIA. Budget Airline Air Asia has started flying from the DMIA to Malaysia. Tiger Airways also flies from the DMIA to Singapore.
The MIAA sees a need to increase the passenger capacity of the DMIA from 1.5 million to 3.5 million a year when it completes the expansion project by 2007.
Leasing of land in the DMIA aviation complex has been temporarily stopped until a new land-use master plan is finalized.
Cusi said that with the President’s new executive order, resources from the MIAA’s earnings from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport can go to upgrading the facilities of the seven other airports.
He said the NAIA and the Mactan-Cebu International Airport are the only earning international airports in the country.
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