GES | General Santos International Airport

[franz235]

totoo ba na comparing with the land area, gensan airport is much bigger than davao international airport?

[xzibit31]

Originally Posted by franz235

totoo ba na comparing with the land area, gensan airport is much bigger than davao international airport?

yup..GES is much bigger than DVO..remember that GES was designed to be an airbase...

[habagatcentral1]

Was USAID part of its construction?

[CarloPlyr440]

Are They Going extend GenSan International Airport? So the terminal will International Airlines Will Make flights There.

[chevy_boy]

Originally Posted by franz235

totoo ba na comparing with the land area, gensan airport is much bigger than davao international airport?

yupyup... GenSan's aiport has a land area of 600 hec. There's still enough room for a second runway and a second terminal...

[chevy_boy]

Thieves prevent night landings at General Santos airport


By Aquiles Zonio
Mindanao Bureau
Last updated 11:32pm (Mla time) 11/22/2007


GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Philippines -- Pilots encountering trouble in their aircraft during night flights should skip the General Santos International Airport here and look for other airports for emergency landings.

The local Air Transportation Office (ATO) announced that there will be no more emergency landings at night for all types of aircraft at the local airport as a result of the pilferage of its lights and electric wires, which for some reason airport officials have been unable to prevent.

Nathaniel Nazareno, airport manager, said emergency landings at the local airport at night could be disastrous as the runway has no lights.

Nazareno said the lighting facilities on the runway have been disabled by thieves, who have been stealing the electrical wires and the light bulbs.

The first of such thefts, which immediately rendered the lights useless, was on October 31.

Nazareno said earlier this week, police authorities finally caught up with some of the suspected thieves -- four minors -- who tried to steal the runway’s light bulbs and wires.

He said during follow-up operations, the police also recovered some of the stolen electrical wires from the suspects’ houses.

Nazareno said the damage wrought by the pilferage of the airport’s lighting system was valued at P1 million.

"It would take a long time before passenger, private and military aircraft could use the GenSan airport during night time,” Nazareno said.

[Raven83]

those people when caught should be given warning shots!...............

...in their head!

[chevy_boy]

PAL B747-400 flies again to GenSan... Hmmm it's been three years since may last B744 flight from GenSan to Manila...

[chevy_boy]

Any new updates about this airport?

[chevy_boy]

Cebu Pacific adds morning flights to GenSan, Butuan

Cebu Pacific (CEB), the country’s leading domestic airline, will expand its existing daily mid-day service from Manila to General Santos and Butuan on July 11 and 12, 2008, respectively.

CEB will add a morning flight to its Manila-General Santos service every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, expanding the service to ten times weekly. This translates to a 42% increase in capacity for the Manila-General Santos route.

The additional flight will depart from Manila at 7:05am and will arrive in General Santos at 8:55am using CEB’s A320 aircraft. The return flight takes off at 9:25am and lands in Manila at 11:15am.

The budget airline will also increase its daily flights from Manila to Butuan to 11 times weekly, increasing the capacity by 57% for the service. The additional morning flight will depart every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday also using the A320 aircraft.

The flight leaves Manila at 7:35am and arrives in Butuan at 9:00am. The return flight departs at 9:30am and arrives in Manila at 10:55am.

Candice Iyog, CEB VP for marketing and product, said, “We hope that by adding morning flights to the existing daily mid-day schedule for these routes, we will be able to provide ease and convenience for both business and leisure travelers both to General Santos and Butuan. This will also mean that more low fare seats are going to be available for these routes.”

Now in its 13th year, CEB operates flights to 23, soon to be 24 domestic cities with the addition of San Jose (Mindoro) on July 1. It also flies to 15, soon to be 16 international destinations with the addition of Kota Kinabalu on July 18, 2008.

[romantic_guy08]

On our way to GES PR 453 an A330 service when Typhoon Frank hit souther Phils...



PR 453 that left MNL on the height of Typhoon Frank in Luzon/MNL, my officemate was in this flight





Our return flight, an PR 454, A340 service...





GES really needs improvement though, the terminal that is....

[arianespace]

Definitely, but it won't come in unless you have more flights to pay for it. GES is an under achieving international gateway with underutilized terminal, a product of Gensan boom in the 90's which it failed to sustain. Even DVO suffered similar faith but at least they are growing back now. While SFS falters, it was compensated by Cargo ops. But GES got stuck. It was designed to handle 2 million passengers by now and the actual figures for 2007 does not even come close. The government is losing on this one, revenue wise. So unless it is serving at least 1,200 ppd forget the expansion for now.

[chevy_boy]

Low-fare leader Cebu Pacific is adding frequencies to its services from Manila to Bacolod, Tacloban, Cotabato, and Dipolog.

The airline will also expand its route network from Cebu with the launch of its direct Cebu-General Santos (GenSan) service starting August 15, 2008.

CEB introduces the additional frequencies and announces its Cebu-GenSan operations with a seat sale which will run from July 24 to 29, 2008. This is valid for travel from August 15 to November 30, 2008.

One-way fares to Bacolod, Tacloban and Cebu-GenSan is at P999 ‘all-in’ while fares to Cotabato and Dipolog is at P1,499 ‘all-in’.

Candice Iyog, CEB spokesman said, “We will continue to expand our operations and offer the lowest ‘all-inclusive’ fares especially to new CEB routes that have not been previously exposed to our low fares.”

The three-times weekly Cebu-GenSan service will operate every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The flight departs from Cebu at 10:30am and arrives in GenSan at 11:30am. It leaves GenSan at 12:00nn and arrives back in Cebu at 1:10pm.

CEB’s Manila-Bacolod service will grow from 21 to 24 flights weekly while its Manila-Tacloban service will increase from 21 to 25 flights weekly. The carrier will also increase its operations to Cotabato from five-times weekly to daily while Manila-Dipolog will grow from four times to five times weekly.

Iyog added, “We encourage the public to book their flights via www.cebupacificair.com or call its reservations hotline (02) 7020888 or (032) 2308888 or contact their travel agent. Fares are so low and are even comparable to other modes of transport such as ferries and buses.”

Now in its 13th year, CEB has the youngest aircraft fleet in the Philippines. It has a fleet of ten A319s, eight A320s, and two ATR72-500 aircraft.

[kiretoce]

I think this thread needs revisiting. Any news or updates?

[Pao_hotiee_20]

Originally Posted by WawaY[625]

yeah, international standards but an airport of international standards doesnt mean international airport na siya, maybe pasado sa international standard for domestic flights? or nasa international standards yung mga navigational equipment nya

And the terminal isnt designed to accomodate international flights (yung layout kumbaga)

if you look at NBSA and NIA walang separate areas like check in, arrival and mga support areas for international flight like customs etc

WawaY... i think they have alloted a space for the check in, arrival and mga support areas for international flight like customs etc ... i think malapad naman ang arrival area ng iloilo airport eh.. diba..... and biside ang ngaplano nga airport ay inisip na sa future magkakaroon ng international flight sa iloilo... diba and bisde"s Iloilo is the regional capital ng western visayas......

right now according sa customs kung mayroon ng international flight diyan next year daw... ay baka gawing sub airport of entry ang iloilo airport for passenger and cargo kung mangyari iyon ....

[WawaY[625]]

Originally Posted by Pao_hotiee_20

WawaY... i think they have alloted a space for the check in, arrival and mga support areas for international flight like customs etc ... i think malapad naman ang arrival area ng iloilo airport eh.. diba..... and biside ang ngaplano nga airport ay inisip na sa future magkakaroon ng international flight sa iloilo... diba and bisde"s Iloilo is the regional capital ng western visayas......

right now according sa customs kung mayroon ng international flight diyan next year daw... ay baka gawing sub airport of entry ang iloilo airport for passenger and cargo kung mangyari iyon ....

but for now wala pa diba?

[chuck23]

Buti p sa gensan nglaland ng B747, A330 at A340.....

[FlashCollider]

Originally Posted by Raven83

those people when caught should be given warning shots!...............

...in their head!

hahaha pwedeng sila nalang ang pahawakin ng poste ng ilaw.

[metrosuburban]

So this airport has no airbridges?? but it's fairly new...

[m1k3]

the runway is huge but the terminal building is just small...