Transportation Secretary Arthur P. Tugade landed on the Bicol International Airport (BIA) in Daraga, Albay from Manila on Friday, July 30, ahead of its target completion in September this year. Tugade landed on the BIA runway on Friday morning aboard Gulfstream 150 to check the ongoing progress of...
Just before President Duterte's final State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 26, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) boasted on social media its growing list of accomplishments for the past five years of the administration. Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade (Ali Vicoy / File...
Confident that the Philippine aviation industry will recover, and related manpower requirements will be a must, the First Aviation Academy Inc. (FAAi) has acquired all the training assets from the Philippine Air Lines Aviation School (PALAV). This includes nine (9) Cessna 172, and the Redbird...
The UN civil aviation agency will hold an urgent meeting Thursday to discuss Belarus after Western powers on the UN Security Council called for the body to investigate Minsk's diversion of a European flight and arrest of a dissident. A photo taken on May 23, 2021 shows a Boeing 737-8AS Ryanair...
EU leaders agreed to cut air links with Belarus on Monday, as leader Alexander Lukashenko's regime paraded a dissident journalist arrested after his flight was forced to land in Minsk. A photo taken on May 23, 2021 shows a Boeing 737-8AS Ryanair passenger plane (flight FR4978, SP-RSM) from Athens,...
Following the approval by the House Committee on Transportation on House Bill 8700, amending the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), business groups also recommended that the Senate file a counterpart measure and initiate hearings on the reform with a view to approving it by the end...
With the growth of e-commerce due to technology and the Covid-19 pandemic, J&T Express Philippines commended the opening of a new era of aviation courier services by J&T Express Indonesia last March 18 as the latter unveiled at the Budiarto Airport in Tangerang City, Indonesia one of seven...
Unfazed by grim prospects for the airline industry this year, Pacific Global One Aviation (PG1), the aviation arm of PLDT, Inc., undertakes a major rebrand for its chartered services to get a piece of the $7 billion market by 2024. The company has set its sights on the medium term and expects the...
The transport sector was one of the biggest casualties of the pandemic as borders shut down. Airlines have been soaring high in the past decade, riding on the popularity of cheap travel. But in a snap, fear of catching COVID 19 killed everyone's appetite for globe-trotting. No one wants to...
AirAsia Group Bhd. aircraft stand on the tarmac at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA 2) in Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia. (Photographer: Samsul Said/Bloomberg AirAsia is already seeing strong positive signs of recovery from across its regional market, including the Philippines, indicating...
The Department of Finance (DOF) said that local airlines have yet to submit the final loan plan to activate their P700 million financial support earmarked under the government’s economic stimulus programs. (Manila Bulletin File Photo) Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said the amount of...
Although the aviation sector is "in the midst of the deepest shock in its history" with up to 5 million losing their jobs by yearend, it's sticking to its green goal of slashing CO2 emissions in half by 2050. Long-term climate action should be a priority alongside economic recovery in the coming...
