CRK | Clark International Airport

[SunKing]

It was FedEx which practically launched the A380 Freighter program, UPS is interested in it as well.

[renell]

is there a passenger terminal in Clark? if so, how big? i only hear freight airlines flying here...

[SunKing]

There was the old Military Air Charter Terminal, here's a map:

(http://www.clarkab.com/)

In 2000, the MAC Terminal had a facelift and it looked like this:

(http://zcap.freeyellow.com/)

[Skyblade]

Didn't Asiana have something going at Clark? And I thought 5J also operated/operates a flight or two from DMIA.

[ryanr]

I've been to that terminal...actually just at the parking lot.

Yeah Asiana flies to Clark 2 or 3 times a week...im not so sure.

[SunKing]

Well here's the parking lot with the most parking space available, perhaps for any international airport:

[archie]

as per my readings (not psychic huh.. ) on DMIA:
it has 2-3.2 km. parallel runways that can accommodate even the largest commercial and military aircraft in the world and has been declared Category I in the precision approach by the ICO.--- errr, am not aware of this category thing....
Plus: it can accommodate 10 aircrafts (wide bodied MD 11/Boeing 747) at any given time...
The existing passenger terminal can serve 500 passengers per hour or 1.5M passengers annually. It has 9 check in counters.
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whatever this press (praise) release means, i guess Clark is getting ready to take over NAIA in the future...
by the way, the paper also said that Asiana flies 5x a week in Clark and Incheon Int'l. Airport

[ewh1]

Clark is getting another Runaway and Improvements!

THE GOVERNMENT is considering a 250-million-dollar expansion and upgrade of the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in the Clark Special Economic Zone north of Manila in next three years to attract more investors, including aircraft maker Boeing Co., Inquirer sources said.

With the Terminal 3 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport mothballed indefinitely, the Clark airport is also the government's alternative site to support the requirements of Metro Manila.


A source in Clark International Airport Corp. said the government was holding exploratory talks with Boeing to convince the aircraft maker to consider Clark as a site for a maintenance and logistics hub it plans to establish in Southeast Asia.

More than 50 percent of the planes flying across the Asian region are Boeing planes, including those used by Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific Air and freight carriers Federal Express and United Parcel Services.

The source said the discussions with Boeing were very preliminary but the government was already planning to borrow money to finance an upgrading of the Macapagal airport, which will include building another runway to accommodate more aircraft and expanding the hangar to attract maintenance service companies.

The government plans to borrow initially 70 million dollars from multilateral lenders to finance the airport upgrade, the source said.

The airport has two parallel 3.2-kilometer runways that can accommodate large aircraft and a passenger terminal building that can serve 500 passengers an hour, or 1.5 million passengers a year.

"Clark has to have another runway," said another source. The airport has to expand to accommodate the requirements of potential locators, including Fedex."

Cargo carrier and logistics firm Fedex plans to transfer its regional facility to Clark once its newly extended contract with the Subic Bay Freeport expires in 2010. It has reserved about 50 hectares of land in Clark.

Before the government firms up the expansion plans, Clark airport authorities want to solicit interest from potential investors in a kind of pre-selling.

Also on the list of airport's likely locators is Lufthansa Technik, which has reserved more than 50 hectares of land in Clark, a former US military airbase. With INQ7.net

[Edmundtanso]

Gov't considers $250-M Clark airport expansion
Posted: 0:58 AM | Jun. 09, 2004


Inquirer News Service

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THE GOVERNMENT is considering a 250-million-dollar expansion and upgrade of the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in the Clark Special Economic Zone north of Manila in next three years to attract more investors, including aircraft maker Boeing Co., Inquirer sources said.

With the Terminal 3 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport mothballed indefinitely, the Clark airport is also the government's alternative site to support the requirements of Metro Manila.


A source in Clark International Airport Corp. said the government was holding exploratory talks with Boeing to convince the aircraft maker to consider Clark as a site for a maintenance and logistics hub it plans to establish in Southeast Asia.

More than 50 percent of the planes flying across the Asian region are Boeing planes, including those used by Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific Air and freight carriers Federal Express and United Parcel Services.

The source said the discussions with Boeing were very preliminary but the government was already planning to borrow money to finance an upgrading of the Macapagal airport, which will include building another runway to accommodate more aircraft and expanding the hangar to attract maintenance service companies.

The government plans to borrow initially 70 million dollars from multilateral lenders to finance the airport upgrade, the source said.

The airport has two parallel 3.2-kilometer runways that can accommodate large aircraft and a passenger terminal building that can serve 500 passengers an hour, or 1.5 million passengers a year.

"Clark has to have another runway," said another source. The airport has to expand to accommodate the requirements of potential locators, including Fedex."

Cargo carrier and logistics firm Fedex plans to transfer its regional facility to Clark once its newly extended contract with the Subic Bay Freeport expires in 2010. It has reserved about 50 hectares of land in Clark.

Before the government firms up the expansion plans, Clark airport authorities want to solicit interest from potential investors in a kind of pre-selling.

Also on the list of airport's likely locators is Lufthansa Technik, which has reserved more than 50 hectares of land in Clark, a former US military airbase. With INQ7.net

[ewh1]

hey Edmund.... you gotta look Carefully.. Look up ^ i already posted the same thing lol :P

[archie]

looks like everybody is interested bout Clark's infra development...
check out clark.com.ph for more info and updates on CSEZ..

[renell]

it looks like it's going to be in much use in the future, though no passenger terminals, just cargo...

[Edmundtanso]

Originally Posted by ewh1

hey Edmund.... you gotta look Carefully.. Look up ^ i already posted the same thing lol :P

my fault. sorry, i didnt see your posting when i posted the same article

[ewh1]

hehe No worries...


anyways it looks great for clark in the future. With Boeing looking at creating a hub in SEA here and renovations more positive things will happen to the people of Pampanga

[ryanr]

Superb news!! Future is really great for Clark. I hope they build new runways, taxi ways, a modern international terminal(s) and other infrastructure soon.
Indeed, when Boeing invests in Clark, that should set things up for the future. UPS is already doing a well, with FedEx on the way.

[renell]

could we soon see an expansion of the terminal there?

[federal]

hmmmm... they can't even open NAIA T3 on time, i guess it would take a mere 10-15 years before grand terminals at Clark Int'l goes into construction.

i wonder if federalism will make a difference....

[Edmundtanso]

NAIA head urges full development of Clark airport
By Ding Cervantes
The Philippine Star 06/16/2004

CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) general manager Edgardo Manda urged yesterday the full development of the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) here, saying that the NAIA is "not technically ready" for new large aircraft to be fielded by Singapore Airlines by 2006.

"NAIA’s main runway 06-24 can absorb the impact of the double-decker Airbus 380, but the aircraft’s wing span is so wide that it would reach up to the taxiway. This means that all other aircraft would have to wait until the Airbus 380 has either parked or taken off, thus resulting in flight delays," Manda told The STAR. He met the manufacturers of the large aircraft last week

As a temporary measure, the NAIA is set to bid the rehabilitation of runway 13-31, but merely to provide enough taxiway room to the Airbus 380.

The project, which will be bid out within the next 60 days, will cost some P300 million.

Still, the Airbus 380’s wing span would prevent it from being connected with the passenger terminal through an aerobridge so it would have to be parked in a "remote" area within the NAIA, Manda said.

"This would cause some inconvenience to passengers since it would take about 30 minutes for them to reach the passenger terminal," he said.

Manda, however, said that some airports abroad, particularly in Los Angeles, are also confronted with similar problems.

He said he is not aware of other airlines planning to launch the Airbus 380 in the coming years.

"We simply do not have enough space for the development of another runway at the NAIA," he said.

He lamented that the mothballed Terminal 3, which could otherwise provide enough space for the Airbus 380, could not be operated due to controversies surrounding it.

"This is one reason why we want to fully develop the DMIA as soon as possible," he said.

He noted that the NAIA, in a memorandum of agreement with the Clark Development Corp. (CDC), has assumed planning, management and operation of the DMIA.

He said the DMIA, which covers some 2,500 hectares, has two runways, each 3.2 kilometers long. However, its passenger terminal, left behind by the US Air Force when it abandoned this former military base in 1991, can accommodate only about 1.5 million passengers a year.

The government is also developing a modern railway system between Clark and Metro Manila to complement plans to transform the DMIA into a premier international airport, as mandated by an executive order issued by former President Fidel Ramos in 1994.

A Chinese consortium is doing the project, which also involves relocating tens of thousands of families living along the old railway tracks of the Philippine National Railways which will be used for the project.

Manda said the NAIA has also become overcrowded, with five to eight percent growth in passengers annually.

"We used to have 4.5 to five million passengers annually, but now we process about seven million," he said.

He also noted an increase of about seven percent in aircraft movement at the NAIA.

[Skyblade]

Originally Posted by federal

hmmmm... they can't even open NAIA T3 on time, i guess it would take a mere 10-15 years before grand terminals at Clark Int'l goes into construction.

Ok if I can survive waiting for NAIA 3 to open, I guess I can survive waiting another 10-20 years until we see a world class DMIA.

[amras]

let's just pray that these plans will push through as soon as possible. NAIA had already reached its limits. when I went home last May, grabe, sobrang gulo sa arrival area ng terminal II. i don't know if there's a system but I just don't get it... imagine if you are a foreigner who's not used to these kind of "disturbances" eh shock talga ang maabutan mo...