DVO | Davao-Francisco Bangoy International Airport

[tj_brewed]

[Sinjin P.]

Go DAVAO! I love your airport's architecture.

[KulasKusgan]

di pa pala tapos ang FBIA commonly known as DIA...

Originally Posted by tj_brewed

ADB to fund key Mindanao projects
March 18 2006
abs-cbnnews.com

DAVAO CITY - The Asian Development Bank has granted loans that funded the infrastructures that would bring socioeconomic development in Mindanao, the second biggest but the poorest island in the Philippines.

The loan will be used to modernize the Davao City’s airport and to build public markets, as well as bus and jeepney terminals in Mindanao’s cities and municipalities.

The Francisco Bangoy International Airport (FBIA), which was partly constructed from the $41-million soft loan from the ADB, now boasts of accommodating a maximum of three million passengers yearly and is earning P2 million monthly.

At a briefing on Friday, the engineer Frederick San Felix, the airport’s area manager, disclosed that terminal, aeronautical and rental fees will be increased "within two months’ time" to raise the airport’s profit by at least 400 percent.

He said the new charges are comparable with those of Manila and Cebu’s airports.

San Felix said the income from all the fees would be enough to cover loan payments to ADB, which would start in 2008, without subsidy from the national government.

Besides the ADB, the European Investment Bank and the Philippine government have funded the P4.9-billion rehabilitation project of the airport, which was completed in 2003.

In 2005 the airport accommodated a total of 1.13 million local passengers, 24,970 international passengers and 43,819 tons of cargo. It also employs 297 people and generated P119.11 million in gross revenues last year.

The airport has 14 local flights and one international flight, the Silk Air to Singapore, daily. Merpati Airlines fly from the airport to Manado every Monday.

Meanwhile, the ADB has also given a total of $38-million loan to the Mindanao Basic Urban Services Sector Project, which would provide basic urban services for two million urban and rural residents of Mindanao.

Among the beneficiaries of the loan is Panabo City, a 45-minute drive from bustling Davao City, which would put up a modern bus and jeepney terminal at a projected cost of P38 million.

[LordCarnal]

Originally Posted by GreyX

At least the new one still looks similar to the old one. They didnt abandon the original roofline design.

Malayan influence indeed.

[bustero]

What is the enhancement anyway? My uncle told me that one reason they did some additional expropriation on our land was they were thinking of extending the runway! Is this true? Definitely the current terminal is underutilized. I've not even seen the other side of the airport.

Strangely enough when I asked my nephew about Davao Airport, he said B747's can land there and do! But it's considered too narrow and short for anyone else but the captain to fly. Since PR is the only widebody operator in the country they'll mostly fly 330's if not 340's not 747's, so why spend it there?

[Coffee]

That Durian thing is awesome and freaky.

Is the "white lumpia" design (as cosmoManila said) intentional? Coincidence?

[xzibit31]

Originally Posted by bustero

What is the enhancement anyway? My uncle told me that one reason they did some additional expropriation on our land was they were thinking of extending the runway! Is this true? Definitely the current terminal is underutilized. I've not even seen the other side of the airport.

Strangely enough when I asked my nephew about Davao Airport, he said B747's can land there and do! But it's considered too narrow and short for anyone else but the captain to fly. Since PR is the only widebody operator in the country they'll mostly fly 330's if not 340's not 747's, so why spend it there?

the runway of the davao airport is just right for the 747's to land on. the runway is not narrow. it is just right for it. 45 meters is just right but it would be better if it were 60 meters, just like in cebu and manila..the runway used to be a captains runway, pero d na ngayon. even the co-pilot can land there na.

we cannot anymore extend the runway of the davao airport because of land constraint. the money being lent to the DIA is for the construction of a dual taxiway, which the DIA doesnt have.

if they exproriated your lands nanaman, i think it would be for the installation of additional navigational aids for the airport. how much is being lent ba? $41m. that is about 2,132,000,000.00. damn! laking pera nyan ah...

our airport is not obsolete. it may have been finished late, but the navigational aids, especially the instrument landing system which is i hear sattelite based, is definitely modern.

if the airport will be saturated, we will be forced to build another one between davao city and panabo (which is not bad). they already have identified a 2000 hectars piece of flat land where the airport will be made. that flat land is government owned. so there will be no problem in getting it.

[KulasKusgan]

Originally Posted by Coffee

That Durian thing is awesome and freaky.

Is the "white lumpia" design (as cosmoManila said) intentional? Coincidence?

its malay architecture is intentional. they want it modern at the same time retain those malayan roof features from old airport.

[Blackraven]

This may be too much but here are my expectations for the new airport:

Necessities of modern airports:

Flat Screen TVs, computerized handling of baggage and other stuff, motorized walkways or walkalators (like those in HK and Changi airport), wireless internet around the whole area, modern interior and great exterior (not really expecting 100% glassy looks like in NAIA T2 and T3).

Hehe

[MarkiiBoi]

High Resolution images from GoogleEarth:

[Sinjin P.]

Love it.

[LordCarnal]

I've noticed that the distances of the boarding tubes are not equal..

Could it be because the boarding tubes with the widest distance from another one is for international flights?

[xzibit31]

yup. the leftmost is used for the smaller type of airplanes like the 737, dc9, a319, a320. most of which are used for domestic services.

the second tube is used for the a330, a340, and 744 of PAL.

the third and fourth tube is used for international services. planes like the a340, 744, and the a388( i think; i wish.hehehehe)

[JAMAICUS]

I love those pics! I can see it from a different perspective!

[MarkiiBoi]

DIA's runway is long!

[amras]

pero parang ang sikip ng buong complex? paano pag gusto nilang mag-expand? are they gonna squeeze in the new structures (for e.g. a new terminal) or just relocate the airport to a new and bigger location?

[xzibit31]

they can expand the terminal on the left and right side. but that is it.

when the airport becomes saturated it will have to be transferred elsewhere. they planners have a site already. it is situated between davao city and panabo city. 2000 hectars of government land. all flat land... no problem of expropriating it kasi government owned and land.

[xzibit31]

Originally Posted by MarkiiBoi

DIA's runway is long!

cebu is longer. sa cebu its 3300 meters or 3.3 kms.

manila is 3700 meters or 3.7 kms.

sa davao ay, for landing its 3000 meters or 3 kms. for take off its 3120 meters or 3.12 kms....

[MarkiiBoi]

oh ok. it looks from the pic above. well relatively but not quite. hehe. thnx for the info.

[xzibit31]

but its long enough for the big planes to land and take off..