CEBU CITY -- A commercial airport may soon rise in the southern part of Cebu Province.
This after the Cebu Provincial government and the Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA) expressed willingness to jointly develop a commercial airport in Dalaguete town, south Cebu.
Dalaguete is about 89 kilometers from Cebu City.
TIEZA General Manager and Chief Operating Officer Mark Lapid and Cebu Gov. Gwen Garcia on Monday inspected a TIEZA-owned 7.7-hectare property in Dalaguete where an airport is being planned to be constructed.
The need to have another airport apart from the Cebu-Mactan International Airport (MCIA) was discussed when a Korean Air plane overshot the MCIA runway last Oct. 23.
"If all things are put in its proper place, we are looking at a possibility of putting another one (airport) in the south,” Garcia said in a press briefing two days after the MCIA mishap.
"Suffice it to say, we are looking at the possibility of perhaps developing another commercial, not necessarily of international standards, but a commercial airport that would be able to receive domestic flights, the same one that we are developing in Bantayan and in Camotes," added the governor.
The governor said that plans to construct a commercial airport in Cebu have already been brought even before the Korean Air incident in MCIA.