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'Ang gulo-gulo ngayon': Villafuerte asks MIAA to halt airline reassignment

Published Jun 21, 2023 09:17 am
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte (Facebook



Describing the current state of airports as "very chaotic", Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte is asking the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) to put on hold its effort to reassign airlines at the different terminals of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA). “With passenger queues reportedly getting even longer at the NAIA departure areas, airport officials need to take a pause on their STAR program, pending a serious rethink of its new initiative that was ostensibly designed to ease the nagging airport congestion that has for long inconvenienced passengers and tourists,” Villafuerte said in a statement Wednesday, June 21. STAR stands for Schedule and Terminal Assignment Rationalization. It was launched by MIAA, operator of NAIA, on April 16 in a bid to ease airport congestion. Under the program, MIAA estimates the capacity of Terminal 2 to increase from 7.5 million to 10 million passengers a year. “Sa airports bakit ang gulo-gulo ngayon. Grabe ang pila. May nag sagot, 'Eh para hindi kayo maperwisyo pumunta po kayo three hours before,’ eh di ba perwisyo din iyon? (Airports are very chaotic these days. The queues are very long. Somebody answered, 'Go there three hours before the flight to avoid inconvenience,' isn't that an inconvenience already?)" Villafuerte was quoted as saying in a statement. The Bicolano said that while MIAA was commendable for addressing the airport congestion problem, which has given a blackeye to the air transport and tourism sectors, “It needs to return to the status quo on airline assignments at the four NAIA terminals until such time it has finished reviewing—and tweaking—its new STAR program." As part of STAR, flag-carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) has moved all its terminal flights to Terminal 1, while its regional brand PAL Express stayed put at Terminal 2. Cebu Pacific’s domestic flights remained at Terminal 3, as well as its turboprop aircrafts under its regional brand Cebgo stays  over at Terminal 4. AirAsia Philippines will move its domestic operations to Terminal 2 beginning July 1, in order  to decongest the relatively smaller Terminal 4. Its international flights will remain at Terminal 3. Royal Air Philippines will transfer, also beginning July 1, its domestic flights from Terminal 4 to Terminal 2, while Sunlight Air will move its flights to Terminal 4 from its current place in the General Aviation Area reserved for chartered flights. Some foreign airlines already moved to Terminal 3 from Terminal 1 last April 16. Villafuerte suggested to airport officials to incorporate his proposed review of STAR into MIAA’s ongoing plan to speed up the rehabilitation, upgrade, and improvements of the NAIA terminals.

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