CAAP says maintenance activity on May 17 reduced to two hours

Zacarian Sarao - Reporter / @zacariansINQ 05/05/2023

MANILA, Philippines — The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) on Friday announced that it will shorten its maintenance activity on May 17 to only two hours. This would be four hours less than its initial…

LIST: Transportation hotlines for Holy Week

Zacarian Sarao - @inquirerdotnet 04/06/2023

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Transportation (DOTr) on Thursday released a list of hotlines the public can call for assistance during the observance of Holy Week when many Filipinos are expected to return to their provinces.…

Isabela local gov’t spots ‘possible wreckage’ of missing Cessna plane

Zacarian Sarao - Reporter / @zacariansINQ 01/29/2023

MANILA, Philippines — A possible wreckage of the missing Cessna 206 RP-C1174 was spotted in a mountainside near Barangay Sapinit, Isabela, said the province’s public information office (PIO) on Sunday. The six-seater plane has been missing since…

Aviation glitch probe: Caap castigated for lax security

Melvin Gascon 01/13/2023

Senators on Thursday, January 12, 2023,  castigated the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (Caap) for alleged lax security as aviation authorities remain clueless about the root cause of the massive disruption of flights on New Year’s…

Business and gov’t execs, netizens lament New Year air traffic system glitch

Gabriel Pabico Lalu - Reporter / @GabrielLaluINQ 01/01/2023

  MANILA, Philippines — A number of air travelers — including elected officials, businessmen and netizens have denounced the technical glitch that hounded the country’s air traffic system and grounded hundreds of domestic and international flights on New Year’s…

Air traffic system glitch diverts all flights in Manila

Beatrice Pinlac, Tyrone Jasper C. Piad - @inquirerdotnet 01/01/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Local carriers have temporarily suspended flights following the power outage at the Philippine Air Traffic Management Center (ATMC) on the first day of the year, causing worries to passengers bound to go home after…

MCIA exec: 2nd runway may be done by 2023, but commissioning it is still a long process

Futch Anthony Inso 12/01/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — The second runway of the Mactan Cebu International Airport may be done by the 3rd quarter of 2023, but the commissioning of the runway will still be a long process. Julius Neri Jr.,…

CAAP exec: Korean aircraft sent distress call for problematic touchdown before landing

Futch Anthony Inso 10/24/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — A distress call was already communicated before the landing of Korean Air flight KE631 on Sunday evening, Oct. 23, 2022. This was clarified by Florentino Galan Jr., air traffic management officer III of…

MCIA to close runway for six hours on Friday

Agnes B. Alpuerto 08/10/2017

CEBU CITY — Expect some flights to be delayed on Friday as the Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) runway will be closed for six hours to allow the preliminary works of the second phase of the runway…

CAAP probes co-pilot’s death

Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/19/2016

The reported death of a co-pilot of a Cebu-bound Cebu Pacific flight from Singapore last Saturday prompted an investigation from the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) and an appeal from a co-pilot’s friend to the…

More Cebuanos should sit at MCIAA Board

Victor Anthony V. Silva 10/23/2016

CONGRESSMAN Raul del Mar has proposed amendments to the Mactan Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA) Charter so more Cebuanos can sit in the body’s Board of Directors. Del Mar, who represents Cebu City’s 1st District, said he…

Cebu Pacific plane aborts takeoff after wheel caught fire

Victor Anthony V. Silva 09/26/2016

One of Cebu Pacific’s (CEB) propeller-type planes caught fire after aborting take off at 6:10 pm Monday. Lawyer JR Mantaring, CEB vice president for corporate affairs, said in an advisory that flight DG6577 Cebu-Tacloban aborted take off…

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