Former President and now Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo today reiterated her stand on making the Clark International Airport (CIA) in Pampanga the alternative to decongest the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
Speaker Arroyo gave the media an impromptu tour today on the ongoing expansion of the CIA in response to queries if she would push for CIA as an alternative to NAIA in the light of the Xiamen incident.
"Actually I have been for it and it’s not because of any specific knee jerk reaction to any event. That's why after our lunch I want to invite the media to go to the ongoing construction of the Clark airport," she said in an ambush interview after she distributed relief goods to more than 600 Aeta families in upland Sitio Pasbul in Brgy. Camias, Porac in Pampanga.
She then invited the media to visit the ongoing expansion of CIA and asked project managers to hold a briefing on the construction of the second terminal.
The terminal will increase the current 2.5 million passengers per year capacity of the current terminal to 10 to 12 million passengers per year. It will be operational by June 2020.
Alex Cauguiran, President of CIA, said the210-hectare CIA is the better alternative to NAIA because it can accommodate up to three runways and 80 million passengers a year.
Cauguiran said aside from decongesting NAIA, the expansion of the Clark airport is part of a bigger development plan for North and Central Luzon as the new terminal will complement other infrastructure projects in the area which include the Manila-Clark Railway, Subic-Clark Cargo Railway, and the New Clark City. It is the first hybrid project of the Build, build, build infrastructure program of the Duterte administration.
Speaker Arroyo gave the media an impromptu tour today on the ongoing expansion of the CIA in response to queries if she would push for CIA as an alternative to NAIA in the light of the Xiamen incident.
"Actually I have been for it and it’s not because of any specific knee jerk reaction to any event. That's why after our lunch I want to invite the media to go to the ongoing construction of the Clark airport," she said in an ambush interview after she distributed relief goods to more than 600 Aeta families in upland Sitio Pasbul in Brgy. Camias, Porac in Pampanga.
She then invited the media to visit the ongoing expansion of CIA and asked project managers to hold a briefing on the construction of the second terminal.
The terminal will increase the current 2.5 million passengers per year capacity of the current terminal to 10 to 12 million passengers per year. It will be operational by June 2020.
Alex Cauguiran, President of CIA, said the210-hectare CIA is the better alternative to NAIA because it can accommodate up to three runways and 80 million passengers a year.
Cauguiran said aside from decongesting NAIA, the expansion of the Clark airport is part of a bigger development plan for North and Central Luzon as the new terminal will complement other infrastructure projects in the area which include the Manila-Clark Railway, Subic-Clark Cargo Railway, and the New Clark City. It is the first hybrid project of the Build, build, build infrastructure program of the Duterte administration.
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