OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar One of the critical challenges facing the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. is the problem of transportation. And one particular problem revolves around our airports. This was in full public and global view on New Year’s Day...
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) has conducted a maintenance activity at its air traffic management center which affected flight operations at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) for a few hours. In its advisory, the CAAP said normal operations immediately returned...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) sought the assistance of the Philippine Air Force (PAF) in bringing farm produce from far provinces to Metro Manila to avoid food spoilage. Photo: Philippine Air Force Major Gen. Stephen Parreno, PAF commanding general, hosted visiting officials from the DA led by...
House Committee on Transportation Chairman Antipolo City 2nd district Rep. Romeo Acop couldn't help but think of worst-case scenarios involving the aviation sector after experts failed to categorically rule out cyber attack as a possible cause of the Jan. 1 Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA)...
The Philippine Air Force (PAF) utilized two C-295 medium lift aircraft to deliver 500 boxes of relief goods to victims of flood due to bad weather in Surigao del Sur and 100 units of wheelchair in Capiz on Tuesday, Jan. 17. Photo: Philippine Air Force / PAF Col. Ma. Consuelo Castillo, PAF...
EVA Air will launch daily nonstop flights between Taipei and the northwestern Philippines, starting on March 30, 2023. The addition of Clark International Airport will give EVA three gateways in the country, in addition to Manila and Cebu. By the end of March, the airline will be operating 35...
Senator Grace Poe on Sunday, January 15, urged Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) director general Manuel Antonio Tamayo to inhibit from the ongoing investigation on the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) air traffic fiasco. Poe said doing so would ensure an impartial...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Back in the day, a Hollywood movie called Crowded Skies was dubbed a flop, a disaster movie that turned out to be a disaster. Today, after what happened on the first day of the new year to our air traffic system and then on Jan. 12 to a similar failure in the US, could it...
Senator Francis ‘Tol’ N. Tolentino has urged the leadership of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) to take advantage of a specific treaty that would help modernize the country’s existing air traffic control system. Tolentino was referring to the 1944 Chicago Convention on...
The Philippine Air Force (PAF) said Friday, Jan. 13, that it transported 1,500 boxes of relief goods to areas affected by different calamities in Visayas and Mindanao. Photo: 900th Air Force Weather Group, Philippine Air Force A PAF C-295 medium lift aircraft operated by the 220th Airlift Wing...
Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri on Thursday, January 12 questioned officials of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) over their lack of security measures, particularly the absence of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in the areas that housed the supposed...
Senator Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito on Tuesday, January 10 said officials who would be found responsible for the system glitch that hit the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) on New Year’s Day should be held accountable. Ejercito made the call ahead of the Senate Committee on Public...
