No international flights to land at MCIA on May 14-15

Morexette Marie B. Erram 05/13/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) will temporarily stop accepting flights carrying returning overseas Filipinos (ROFs) and Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) for two days. Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia, in a virtual press conference…

Airport execs say 2nd taxiway may be used for commercial planes this June

Morexette Marie B. Erram 05/09/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Commercial aircraft may start using the second taxiway at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) for landing and takeoff this June, airport officials announced. MCIA officer-in-charge and lawyer Glenn Napuli said they are just…

Tugade to inspect Cebu bike lanes, BRT progress

Morexette Marie Erram 05/05/2021

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines – Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade is set to inspect Cebu’s bike lanes and the progress of the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) this May 6. Tugade made this announcement during his speech at the…

Mactan-Cebu International Airport expands with 2nd taxiway

Morexette Marie Erram 05/05/2021

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu—Expansions at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) continue despite the crisis spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic. Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, inaugurated MCIA’s second taxiway. Watch it here: He was accompanied…

Free swab tests for returning Filipino travelers at Mactan Cebu Int’l Airport

Morexette Marie B. Erram 04/05/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Filipinos from abroad can now avail of free real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests at the Mactan airport. The Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas (OPAV), in a press release, announced…

Cebu solon clarifies: MCIA name will stay

Morexette Marie B. Erram 04/01/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The name Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) will stay, says Cebu 3rd District Representative Pablo John Garcia. In a statement issued to the media on Thursday, April 1, 2021, Garcia clarified that the…

Cebu province repeals mandatory quarantine for Filipino passengers from abroad

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/31/2021

  CEBU CITY, Philippines – Repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and returning non-OFWs bound for Cebu province will no longer have to undergo mandatory quarantine unless they are confirmed to be infected with COVID-19.   Cebu Governor…

Central Visayas receives 30K doses of AstraZeneca vaccines

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/10/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Central Visayas on Wednesday, March 10, received its third shipment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines. At 7:40 a.m., 30,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines from UK-based pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca arrived at the Mactan…

MCIA logs all-time low in air, passenger traffic in 2020

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/08/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA), the country’s second-busiest gateway, recorded an all-time low in its air and passenger traffic in 2020 when the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic struck. Data from Mactan Cebu…

MCIA logs ‘very low’ passenger traffic for 2020

Futch Anthony Inso 02/04/2021

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines –The Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) has only recorded a ‘very low’ 2.7 million combined passenger traffic in 2020 for both domestic and international travel. This was confirmed by Aines Librodo, GMR-Megawide Cebu Airport Corporation…

Labella to look into Gwen’s allegations of misrepresentation by Cebu City EOC on airport arrivals

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 02/03/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella said he will look into the allegations of Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia that the city’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) has been requiring arriving passengers at the Mactan Cebu…

No need for ‘letter of acceptance’ for passengers bound for Cebu province

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/02/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Cebu Provincial Government announced on Tuesday, February 2, that they will not require passengers arriving at Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) to present letters of coordination upon entry. Governor Gwendolyn Garcia told…

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