The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will be deploying a total of 1,329 of its personnel to the traffic management plan which the agency completed for the July 22 State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President at the Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City. MMDA acting chairman Don Artes...
Senator Mark Villar has sought the installation of timers in traffic lights and pedestrian lights in urban and rural areas to signal the flow of vehicles and pedestrians along the road. In filing Senate Bill (SB) 1959 to be known as the “Traffic Lights and Pedestrian Lights Timer Act”, Villar...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Senator Joseph Victor ”JV” Ejercito on Thursday, January 5 expressed his disappointment at the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines’ (CAAP) failure to back up the air traffic management system (ATMS) of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) despite being granted sufficient...
The Communication, Navigation and Surveillance for Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) system at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) was disabled by a power outage at around 9:50 a.m. on New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, triggering the cancellation of some 300 flights affecting around 56,000...
Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Jaime Bautista has recommended to President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr. the installation of another back-up system for the air traffic management system of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP). Bautista said he mentioned the...
Around 56,000 international and domestic airline passengers coming and heading to Manila were affected due to the technical glitch at the air traffic management system of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) since Sunday morning, Jan. 1. The passengers were on board 282 flights...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is now pushing for the establishment of a national traffic enforcement and management center that would oversee the implementation of an efficient road safety policy and traffic administration. Gatchalian said it is imperative for the government to put in place a...
