PROPOSED AIRPORTS

 Sangley Point Airport, Cavite City, Cavite

- Under construction
Near metrostar Ferry, a passenger ferry service across Manila Bay between Cavite City and Pasay in Metro
Manila, Philippines. It is owned and operated by Metrostar Ferry, Inc.
The DOTr said passenger traffic at Naia already reached 45 million last year, way above the airport’s
designed capacity of 30.5 million.
To help ease congestion at Naia, Sangley will have to cater to general aviation or noncommercial
aircraft, freight turboprops and commercial turboprops, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (Caap)
said. https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1141429/dutertes-rush-job-p486-m-sangley-
airport#ixzz5zG6s49Nm

 Marinduque Airport (Gasan Airport) – Expansion and Improvement

- Marinduque- geographic center of the Philippines
The Department of Transportation said the Marinduque Airport will further undergo improvements
until 2020. These will include the provision of a canal, a power house, communal toilets, and the
construction of a covered pathway and waiting areas.

 Bulacan International Airport Project (New Manila International Airport)

The project involves the construction and operation & maintenance of a new international gateway airport in
Bulacan with a design capacity of 100 million passengers per year, consisting of 4 runways, all aviation-related
facilities and equipment, and an 8-kilometer airport toll road linking the Project to the North Luzon Expressway.
MANILA -- To ease airport congestion, President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday has ordered the transfer of
domestic flights from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) to Sangley Air Base in Cavite.

“The President directed the operations in Sangley Point to start immediately,” Presidential Spokesperson
Salvador Panelo said in a statement.

Panelo said the suggestion to transfer domestic flights to Sangley Air Base was presented by Transportation
Arthur Tugade during Monday night’s Cabinet meeting.

“Transportation Secretary Arthur P. Tugade raised some operational concerns. To ease congestion at the
Ninoy Aquino International Airport, the plan to transfer general aviation or domestic flights to Sangley Air
Base,” Panelo said.

In a Palace briefing, Panelo bared that the President wants the Sangley Airbase in Cavite to accommodate
domestic flights by November.

He said this is a month earlier than Tugade’s target to transfer the domestic flights from the Ninoy Aquino
International Airport (NAIA) to Sangley Airbase by December.

Panelo said Tugade had already initiated the testing of ferries that can operate from Mall of Asia (MOA) in
Pasay City to Sangley within 18 to 24 minutes.

He said Duterte wanted airport security to be handled by a single entity, either from the military or civilian force
to ensure passengers’ safety.

Tugade will be drafting an executive order (EO) for the President's consideration, Panelo said.

Duterte ordered the transfer of domestic flights to Sangley Air Base after making a surprise inspection at the
NAIA Terminal 2 early Monday morning where he was dismayed over flight cancellations and delays.

He asked Tugade’s agency to solve the problem in the long term and promised passengers for the government
to come up with a remedy “within a month.”

Despite these latest airport woes, Panelo said Duterte has yet to announce any intention of sacking any airport
officials.

Sangley Airbase or the Danilo Atienza Air Base in Sangley Point, Cavite used to be a US naval station base
until it was turned over to the Philippine Navy and Air Force in 1971. (PNA)

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1072013