THE Clark International Airport Corp. (CIAC) said it plans to build a budget terminal in Clark and a city terminal in Metro Manila to serve the rising number of passengers and airlines operating in the nothern part of the country.
“We saw that Clark is able to develop its own traffic without getting traffic from Manila and there’s a rise of departed flights in Clark. So, it is appropriate to put up a budget terminal,” Victor Jose Luciano, CIAC president and chief executive told reporters.
Luciano said the 40-hectare terminal would cost P8 billion, and would be undertaken through the Aquino administration’s Public-Private Partnership Program.
He said the proposed terminal will have an annual passenger capacity of 10 million.
CIAC plans to bid out the construction early next year and completino is expect in two years.
Luciano said the budget terminal is separate from the proposed Terminal 2 of the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport.
The City Terminal to be built in Metro Manila would serve as passenger transfer point to Clark.
“We are looking at Trinoma, Centris or Mindanao Avenue in Quezon City for possible location of the City Terminal,” Luciano said.
The official said passengers can check-in in the City Terminal, where shuttle buses would transfer them to Clark.
He said the Department of Transportation and Communications has alloted P120 million for the construction of the City Terminal.
“If the budget is not enough, PPP will come in. We will do it within the year,” Luciano said..
A number of budget carriers—Tiger Airways of Singapore, Air Asia of Malaysia, Asiana Airlines and Jin Air of Korea, Cebu Pacific Air, South East Asian Airlines (Seair), and Spirit of Manila Airlines—operate at the DMIA, which has an annual passenger capacity of two million.
CIAC expects international passenger traffic to hit 3.7 million by 2015 from 607,704 passengers last year.
In 2011, international passengers are projected to grow a million.
Domestic passengers are projected to increase to 700,000 by 2015 from 46,525 last year.
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