New Clark airport terminal will hopefully attract more international flights in the future

[ASEAN NOW News]

The newly built passenger terminal of the Clark International Airport will help ease air traffic congestion in Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), promote more convenient travel, and boost economic growth in Luzon, President Duterte declared Saturday.

 

President Rodrigo Duterte with Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade, Bases Conversion and Development Authority Secretary Vivencio Dizon during an inspection of the new passenger terminal building of the Clark International Airport With them is Luzon International Premier Airport Development Corporation CEO Bi Yong Chungunco. (Malacañang)

 

The President visited the new airport terminal building located in Clark, Pampanga on Saturday and lauded the “massive achievement” that would benefit the people.

 

The new passenger terminal will have a capacity of eight million passengers a year, which will double the existing capacity of the Clark airport.

 

“I just hope that the local economy can absorb the number of people coming to visit the Philippines,” the President said in his speech.

 

“It will surely help decongest traffic at the busy Ninoy [Aquino] International Airport and provide a better flying experience for locals and tourists alike,” he said.

 

The President has commended the Department of Transportation, Bases Conversion and Development Authority as well as partners from the private sector for the completion of the new passenger terminal in Clark airport. It is considered a major project of the administration’s “Build, Build, Build” program.

 

 

“The structure before us reflects the administration’s unyielding commitment to improve the quality of life of every Filipino by providing big ticket infrastructure projects such as this that will improve connectivity, mobility, create jobs, and disperse economic activity to the regions,” the President said.

 

“This development will also certainly boost economic growth in North and Central Luzon and provide these regions their own gateway to the rest of the Philippines and the world,” he added.

 

As the nation recovers from the pandemic and adapt to a new normal, the President also said people could “look forward to a safer, easier, and more comfortable travel experience here at the Clark International Airport.”

 

Among the official’s present were former President and now Presidential Adviser on Clark Programs and Projects Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Senate President Vicente Sotto III, Speaker Lord Allan Jay Velasco, and Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea.

 

 

Great for tourists

 

For those foreigners who have experienced the traffic delays in the past, when driving the two-hour journey for Manila’s international airport to visit Angeles City or Clark, this new terminal will be a huge boost for tourists.

 

 

Let us hope when the pandemic is finally under control, that many airlines, especially the budgets carriers, will schedule flights to Clark.

 

One would certainly expect that the landing fees charged should be lower than Ninoy Aquino International Airport

 

[olfu]

Yes--make Clark airport exempt from Covid19 laws and I'm in.