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SGMA pushes for full dev’t of Clark airport

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(Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Gov. Lilia Pineda and CIAC president Alex Cauguiran are briefed by Johannes Ruof on developments at the airport terminal construction site. Photo Courtesy of Pampanga PIO)

CLARK FREEPORT – Speaker Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo has expressed her full support to the Clark International Airport (CIA) during her visit at the construction site of the new terminal here on Friday.

Clark International Airport Corp. (CIAC) president Alexander Cauguiran assured the former president and now Speaker: “We are going to fi nish the terminal and the road network by May of 2020… The terminal will be fully operational by June 2020.”

Cauguiran also told Arroyo that the new terminal will be renamed Diosdado Macapagal International Airport Terminal during the birthday of the former president also known as the “poor boy from Lubao” next month following a CIAC board resolution.

The new terminal building will have a capacity of eight million passengers per year, double the capacity of the present terminal, Cauguiran said. It will be located 800 meters from the present terminal, he added.

Johannes G. Ruof, Megawide Construction Corp. (MCC) executive vice president, said the center of the new terminal building is 20 meters from the departure level with a mountain view.

He said the total floor area is 105,000 square meters. Accompanying Arroyo during the inspection were Gov. Lilia G. Pineda, Vice Gov. Dennis “Delta” Pineda, Clark Development Corp. president/ CEO Noel F. Manankil and the media.

“Actually, I have been for it (CIA) and it’s not because of any specific knee-jerk reaction to any event,” Arroyo, who represents the second district of Pampanga, said.

If fully developed, the Clark airport can accommodate up to three runways and 80 million passengers annually, Cauguiran said.

He also said aside from decongesting NAIA, the CIA is also part of a proposed development plan for North and Central Luzon because the new terminal will complement other infrastructure projects in the area.

Moves to speed up Clark’s transformation into an alternative to NAIA has become vital following the ditching of a Xiamen Airlines aircraft that resulted in flight delays for several days.

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