Davao City International Airport: Ready for more passengers and bigger aircraft
By Rita Festin
The Philippine STAR 09/18/2006
DAVAO CITY — With air transportation crucial to economic and social connectivity in the Philippine archipelago, the new $128 million state-of-the-art international airport in this city is a welcome development. It is now fully operational and is raring to take in more passengers and bigger aircraft.
With Asian Development Bank (ADB) financing, the Davao airport in Mindanao has been upgraded and expanded to provide reliable and safe all-weather operations that meet international standards and remove infrastructure bottlenecks which were constraining the growth of domestic and international air services. It will also enhance Davao’s access to nearby markets and improve the overall economic prospects of the southern Philippines, and could be considered one vital link for the intermodal transport network essential for this area.
Last year, actual passenger volume already surpassed one million domestic passengers flown in by Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific, Air Philippines and Asian Spirit out of 14 daily local flights. International passengers to and from Manado and Singapore reached almost 25,000. But Davao’s spacious and modern terminal building is designed to accommodate much more, and can easily accommodate up to twice its designed minimum passenger capacity of one million passengers… Full Article Here
Any time we see a major infrastructure upgrade like this in t
he Philippines, it’s good news.
But this one is particularly good news, because I have long been under the impression that Davao City just doesn’t get any respect. It’s a lovely town, tucked far enough out of the way to make it quiet, but with all modern conveniences needed to make it livable.
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