Chinese national, 6 others held at MCIA for fake Letter of Acceptance

Futch Anthony Inso 01/13/2021

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines – Six Filipinos and one Chinese national were being held at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) this afternoon, January 13, 2021, after authorities discovered that their Letter of Acceptance from the Lapu-Lapu City Government…

Lapu-Lapu gov’t monitors 16 travellers from countries with cases of new COVID strain

Futch Anthony Inso 01/10/2021

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines —The Lapu-Lapu City government is monitoring 16 additional travellers from countries with confirmed cases of the new variant of Sars-coV-2. Sars-coV-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19. Grace Carungay, head of the City Epidemiology…

MCIA closes port for non-Filipino passengers from flagged countries

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/30/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) has closed its ports to passengers from the 19 countries with the reported new strain of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) as mandated by the national Interagency…

Passengers bound for Cebu City from flagged countries will be quarantined

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/29/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City-bound passengers from countries reported to have the new strain of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) will be quarantined for 14 days in a health facility should they arrive today before the…

Chan to ask IATF to allow resumption of int’l flights in MCIA

Futch Anthony Inso 12/17/2020

MCIA Terminal 2 | Photo courtesy of GMR Megawide Cebu Airport Corporation LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan is planning to send a letter to the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on the Management…

Gwen welcomes Lapu-Lapu’s plan to reopen international flights

12/16/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia welcomed the plans of the Lapu-Lapu City Government to reopen Mactan airport for international flights ferrying foreign tourists. “I will join Mayor Ahong (Chan) in that aspect as long…

Del Mar returns home, honored as ‘father’ of CPA, MCIA

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/02/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The remains of the late Cebu City Congressman Raul Del Mar have returned home. Del Mar’s ashes arrived at Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) around 10 a.m. on Wednesday, December 2, wherein welcome…

MCIA passengers told to download contact tracing app

Morexette Marie B. Erram 11/12/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Smartphone-equipped passengers departing and arriving at Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) are advised to download the government’s contact tracing application. GMR-Megawide Cebu Airport Corporation (GMCAC), in a press release dated November 12, 2020,…

Mactan airport traffic ‘slightly improving’ but double-digit decline still seen

Morexette Marie B. Erram 10/15/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Statistics on passenger and air traffic in Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) may have slightly improved since June but it is still a huge drop compared to those posted in 2019. From January…

Funds raised for MCIA expansion, Carbon redevelopment

Morexette Marie B. Erram 10/01/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Conglomerate Megawide Construction Corporation will be raising up to P5 billion in funds to implement several government-tied projects. In a press statement dated and submitted on September 30, 2020, to the local bourse,…

Swab test for departing passengers not mandatory

Morexette Marie B. Erram 08/31/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Officials of the Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) have issued a clarification that swab test for departing passengers is not mandatory. Real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests for departing passengers is “an optional…

MCIA opens swab test booth for departing passengers

Morexette Marie B. Erram 08/30/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Passengers who are departing from the Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) and are required to submit PCR test results can already have themselves tested for the coronavirus disease at the airport’s swab testing…

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