Panglao-Bohol International Airport Development Project

[Sky Harbor]

Originally Posted by great184

They can no longer expang Tagbilaran airport since it is bordered with houses at all sides. I'm worried though if it may cause noise pollution near the beaches.

That's why there's eminent domain. If it isn't possible, why not build it in an open area near Tagbilaran but not on Panglao?

[GearX]

Panglao airport a 20-year-old Bohol dream

PANGLAO ISLAND, Bohol – Gov. Erico Aumentado here expressed gratitude to the administration of President Arroyo for "realizing the Boholano dream" of an international airport that took 20 years to materialize.

Aumentado said the international airport was long needed in the province, especially in the island of Panglao, which is considered the jewel of tourism in Bohol, and the groundbreaking of the facility last Tuesday only showed that the Boholano dream is becoming a reality.

"Our dreams are slowly becoming a reality. This airport facility will surely open the province to immense economic and tourism growth," Aumentado said, in front of the more than 2,000 Boholanos who gathered at the proposed airport site during the groundbreaking ceremony last Tuesday.

Aumentado said all of the 1.3 million Boholanos will be grateful to the administration of President Arroyo for giving priority to the R4.2-billion Panglao International Airport, considered as the "mother of development in Bohol."

The first phase of the facility is expected to be ready by April 2010. The first phase consists of the construction of 2.5-kilometer runway with allied facilities, said Aumentado. The second phase consists of the construction of terminal building and allied facilities and possibly the extension of the runway to 3.8 kilometers.

The airport will be nestled on a 211-hectare property. Of the 211 hectares, 162 hectares were already paid off, 21 hectares were bartered with other lots while only three hectares might be expropriated by the government. The new airport sprawls across four barangays, namely Lourdes, Bolod, Tawala and Danao in Panglao town.

Aside from the Philippine Airlines, Aumentado earlier said he has already received the commitment of Korean Airlines for a direct flight from Korea to Panglao Island as he stressed that more airlines have expressed their interests in flying direct to the province.

Department of Tourism (DoT) Regional Director Pat Roa agreed with Aumentado on the availability of flights to the proposed international airport, saying a lot of airlines have asked if Bohol has an international airport. (Mars Mosqueda)

[GearX]

[lochinvar]

"Two reasons: the island is too small and too hilly to develop (unless if you are talking about specifically for STOL or helicopters). And two, though it is possible develop at such place in today's technology, it will destroy the beauty of the island itself. Besides, there's an airport in Caticlan."

Whatever happen to the proposed private international airport at nearby Carabao Island?

[taga-bayan]

ayon sa insider report, si madam daw kasi ang may-ari ng eskaya kaya boost sa kanyang business ang pagtatayo ng airport.

[metrosuburban]

yun bang actual design nung airport? parang giant warehouse. Sana lang maganda sya sa loob..

[Sinjin P.]

Para siyang mall

[FerrariLover]

This airport looks like a Hangar, maybe para double purpose, kapag may bagyo
hehehe...

****-revise naman design po... Para mas kaakit-akit sya tingnan.
Suggestion lang po....

[flesh_is_weak]

ok na rin naman, considering its location...sa terminal 2 na lang siguro yung mas bonggang design...

in fairness, di rin naman kagandahan yung ibang major airport terminals abroad, like Washington-Dulles for example:

[garzland]

Originally Posted by GearX

Panglao airport a 20-year-old Bohol dream

PANGLAO ISLAND, Bohol – Gov. Erico Aumentado here expressed gratitude to the administration of President Arroyo for "realizing the Boholano dream" of an international airport that took 20 years to materialize.

Aumentado said the international airport was long needed in the province, especially in the island of Panglao, which is considered the jewel of tourism in Bohol, and the groundbreaking of the facility last Tuesday only showed that the Boholano dream is becoming a reality.

"Our dreams are slowly becoming a reality. This airport facility will surely open the province to immense economic and tourism growth," Aumentado said, in front of the more than 2,000 Boholanos who gathered at the proposed airport site during the groundbreaking ceremony last Tuesday.

Aumentado said all of the 1.3 million Boholanos will be grateful to the administration of President Arroyo for giving priority to the R4.2-billion Panglao International Airport, considered as the "mother of development in Bohol."

The first phase of the facility is expected to be ready by April 2010. The first phase consists of the construction of 2.5-kilometer runway with allied facilities, said Aumentado. The second phase consists of the construction of terminal building and allied facilities and possibly the extension of the runway to 3.8 kilometers.

The airport will be nestled on a 211-hectare property. Of the 211 hectares, 162 hectares were already paid off, 21 hectares were bartered with other lots while only three hectares might be expropriated by the government. The new airport sprawls across four barangays, namely Lourdes, Bolod, Tawala and Danao in Panglao town.

Aside from the Philippine Airlines, Aumentado earlier said he has already received the commitment of Korean Airlines for a direct flight from Korea to Panglao Island as he stressed that more airlines have expressed their interests in flying direct to the province.

Department of Tourism (DoT) Regional Director Pat Roa agreed with Aumentado on the availability of flights to the proposed international airport, saying a lot of airlines have asked if Bohol has an international airport. (Mars Mosqueda)

This will lessen, I guess, the passengers arriving in Cebu because more of these passengers are tourists of Bohol.

Good news for Bohol, indeed!

[Sinjin P.]

^ "More of these passengers are tourists of Bohol" - Hi do you have the figures to support your statement? It might gain the ire of the Cebuano forumers if you don't support your statement. Thanks.

EDIT: Here,

Tourist arrivals up in C. Visayas
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb...in.survey.html

CENTRAL Visayas, which is being promoted as the tourism hub of the country, posted a 10.17-percent growth rate in visitor arrivals for the first quarter this year over the same period in 2007.

The region recorded 535,396 visitors from January to March this year compared to 485,993 visitors in the same period in 2007, reflecting an increase of 49,403 tourists.

These figures were taken from the Department of Tourism (DOT) 7 whose sources of data are accommodation establishments such as hotels, inns, pension houses, resorts and beach resorts.

At the national level, DOT Central Office reported 858,244 arrivals in the country in the first quarter, up by 8.5 percent over the previous year’s total 790,888 arrivals for the same months in 2007. However, the sources of the national data were based on all entry points in the country, such as airports and seaport.

Of the four provinces in Central Visayas, Cebu posted the highest number of domestic and foreign visitors in the first quarter with 410,597 tourists, followed by Bohol with 65,617 visitors.

The provinces of Oriental Negros and Siquijor have 53,641 and 5,541 visitors, respectively.

Cebu has 226,753 domestic visitors or 71.12 percent share of domestic arrivals in the region. Bohol has a 14.16 percent
share or 45,152 domestic visitors. Oriental Negros and Siquijor have 13.78 percent and 0.94 percent, respectively.

Cebu Province also has 183,844 foreign visitors or 84.89 percent share of foreign arrivals, followed by Bohol with 20,465 foreign visitors or 9.45 percent share. Meanwhile, Oriental Negros and Siguijor accounted for 4.49 percent share and 1.17 percent share, respectively.

There is a 9.63-percent growth in domestic arrivals in Central Visayas and another 10.97 percent growth rate in terms of foreign arrivals.

A huge number of foreign tourists in the region came from Korea, Japan, United States and Taiwan.

[garzland]

Originally Posted by FerrariLover

This airport looks like a Hangar, maybe para double purpose, kapag may bagyo
hehehe...

****-revise naman design po... Para mas kaakit-akit sya tingnan.
Suggestion lang po....

Who's the architect of that?! We need to have better designs, an iconic design that is! We're talking about international airport so it must iconic and catchy not that trashy design.

[metrosuburban]

Originally Posted by flesh_is_weak

ok na rin naman, considering its location...sa terminal 2 na lang siguro yung mas bonggang design...

in fairness, di rin naman kagandahan yung ibang major airport terminals abroad, like Washington-Dulles for example:

classic!! ganda

[mwg12a]

Is there any rendering here somewhere on how the new terminal building would look like? I'm not sure if I only missed it in a previous page or in another thread.. Thanks much!

[kratos1211]

Originally Posted by mwg12a

Is there any rendering here somewhere on how the new terminal building would look like? I'm not sure if I only missed it in a previous page or in another thread.. Thanks much!

you can see a partial picture of the airport. Hope its accurate.

image hosted on flickr

[kratos1211]

Commentary
Surplus of airports amid food deficit

By Ernesto M. Pernia
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:39:00 05/20/2008

MANILA, Philippines—International airports are a humdrum topic until one realizes that we have too many of them, yet we do not have enough food, power, water and other basic needs. The subject comes to mind because another international airport is to break ground this month in Panglao Island, Bohol. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo herself is scheduled to preside over the ceremony.

The project was first conceptualized more than 20 years back when hardly anyone even dreamed that the island would become a world-renowned tourist attraction. With the typical on-again, off-again manner of government planning, not too many people paid attention to the project. Of late, however, it’s been rushed supposedly so that it can be completed in two years, before the end of the President’s and the provincial governor’s term in 2010.

The key question is: Does the country need another international airport in addition to the nine existing ones (Laoag, Clark, Subic, NAIA, Iloilo, Mactan, Davao, General Santos, Zamboanga, not to mention the one planned for Cagayan de Oro)?

Consider the most recent available data comparing the Philippines with its neighbors in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It seems clear that the Philippines has over-extended itself. It already has more international airports than Thailand and Malaysia, and certainly many more than warranted by pertinent indicators.

How can so many international airports be justified in the Philippines with the smallest land area among the four countries, the least number of tourists, a GDP per capita just slightly above Indonesia’s which is the lowest, and—shamefully—the highest poverty incidence (percent of population below the official poverty line)?

One has to wonder how our country’s leaders can in good conscience countenance the proliferation of international airports that are mostly underutilized, while more basic infrastructure and social services remain inadequate and one of three Filipinos exists in deep and grinding poverty! An additional international airport will be superfluous, a misallocation of resources and a sheer waste of scarce investible funds in a poor country.

There’s another sobering thought. Upon us appears to be an era of increasing supply-demand imbalances and ecological instability, highlighted by the global food crisis, inexorable rise in oil prices and climate change. These are likely to adversely affect international travel and tourism.

It follows that an international airport in Bohol (and, for that matter, the one in Cagayan de Oro) will be hard to justify on sound economic grounds. The case is made additionally weaker given the proximity of Mactan International Airport. One can’t avoid likening it to the controversial NBN-ZTE project, a broadband network that was to electronically link the national government with the LGUs up to the remotest barrios. It has been criticized, among others, as wasteful because there already exist two such privately provided broadband networks that could well be extended for the purpose if electric power in the provinces can be improved.

However, assuming for argument’s sake that Bohol needs an international airport: Why in Panglao of all places? It’s the province’s crown jewel. Its powdery white-sand beaches and world-renowned biodiversity coupled with its rustic character are what make the island unique and particularly inviting. Indeed, it has been declared by UNESCO a world heritage site, a recognition of the province’s vaunted policy of ecotourism and balanced development.

An airport would damage Panglao’s ecology, if not in the short run, certainly in the long run. When that happens the very purpose of the airport would be defeated as tourists would shun a damaged environment. Note, for instance, the deterioration of Boracay’s ecology owing to wanton overbuilding and commercialization even sans an international airport.

Bohol may need a more adequate domestic airport which could be located elsewhere. And, obviously, that would cost only a fraction of the amount for an international airport. The extra resources could then be put to better use in boosting food production, improving water and power supply and enhancing education and health services. Bohol’s poverty incidence (34.9 percent in 2003) is higher than the national average.

One can rephrase the earlier question. How can Bohol’s leaders in good conscience be proud of an expensive and questionable project when more than one of three Boholanos live in absolute poverty? Do our local Neroes fiddle while people suffer?

A major reason advanced by political leaders for going ahead with the project—despite unanswered questions—is that preparations are far too advanced and funds have been committed. Doesn’t this reflect bankrupt thinking? First, funds are fungible, i.e., can be reallocated to better use. Secondly, it’s never too late. An analogy is a person who is in imminent danger of contracting cancer. Shouldn’t his physician give the right advice and shouldn’t the patient dutifully oblige just because it’s too late?

The analogy is limited, however. If the patient ignores the doctor’s advice, that’s his personal choice with no negative externality (societal impact). By contrast, if the international airport is pursued despite reservations and risks, the negative externalities will be on society at-large—of the present and future generations.

(Ernesto M. Pernia, Ph.D., is professor of economics, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, and former lead economist, Asian Development Bank.)

[lochinvar]

Pernia kept on mentioning international airport, not airport of international standard. The airport is being built are not only for tourists but to enhance business within the region from within and from the outside, much like the ro-ro projects. There is this economic term "Long-Haul, Short-Haul. It's much more cheaper to ship goods to Australia than from Mindanao to Manila. Why? So now, to address this question of poverty, is like the question of the chicken and the egg. Which one comes or needs to be addressed first.

[kalbongdad]

Originally Posted by kratos1211

Commentary
Surplus of airports amid food deficit

By Ernesto M. Pernia
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:39:00 05/20/2008

MANILA, Philippines—International airports are a humdrum topic until one realizes that we have too many of them, yet we do not have enough food, power, water and other basic needs. The subject comes to mind because another international airport is to break ground this month in Panglao Island, Bohol. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo herself is scheduled to preside over the ceremony.

The project was first conceptualized more than 20 years back when hardly anyone even dreamed that the island would become a world-renowned tourist attraction. With the typical on-again, off-again manner of government planning, not too many people paid attention to the project. Of late, however, it’s been rushed supposedly so that it can be completed in two years, before the end of the President’s and the provincial governor’s term in 2010.

The key question is: Does the country need another international airport in addition to the nine existing ones (Laoag, Clark, Subic, NAIA, Iloilo, Mactan, Davao, General Santos, Zamboanga, not to mention the one planned for Cagayan de Oro)?

Consider the most recent available data comparing the Philippines with its neighbors in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It seems clear that the Philippines has over-extended itself. It already has more international airports than Thailand and Malaysia, and certainly many more than warranted by pertinent indicators.

How can so many international airports be justified in the Philippines with the smallest land area among the four countries, the least number of tourists, a GDP per capita just slightly above Indonesia’s which is the lowest, and—shamefully—the highest poverty incidence (percent of population below the official poverty line)?

One has to wonder how our country’s leaders can in good conscience countenance the proliferation of international airports that are mostly underutilized, while more basic infrastructure and social services remain inadequate and one of three Filipinos exists in deep and grinding poverty! An additional international airport will be superfluous, a misallocation of resources and a sheer waste of scarce investible funds in a poor country.

There’s another sobering thought. Upon us appears to be an era of increasing supply-demand imbalances and ecological instability, highlighted by the global food crisis, inexorable rise in oil prices and climate change. These are likely to adversely affect international travel and tourism.

It follows that an international airport in Bohol (and, for that matter, the one in Cagayan de Oro) will be hard to justify on sound economic grounds. The case is made additionally weaker given the proximity of Mactan International Airport. One can’t avoid likening it to the controversial NBN-ZTE project, a broadband network that was to electronically link the national government with the LGUs up to the remotest barrios. It has been criticized, among others, as wasteful because there already exist two such privately provided broadband networks that could well be extended for the purpose if electric power in the provinces can be improved.

However, assuming for argument’s sake that Bohol needs an international airport: Why in Panglao of all places? It’s the province’s crown jewel. Its powdery white-sand beaches and world-renowned biodiversity coupled with its rustic character are what make the island unique and particularly inviting. Indeed, it has been declared by UNESCO a world heritage site, a recognition of the province’s vaunted policy of ecotourism and balanced development.

An airport would damage Panglao’s ecology, if not in the short run, certainly in the long run. When that happens the very purpose of the airport would be defeated as tourists would shun a damaged environment. Note, for instance, the deterioration of Boracay’s ecology owing to wanton overbuilding and commercialization even sans an international airport.

Bohol may need a more adequate domestic airport which could be located elsewhere. And, obviously, that would cost only a fraction of the amount for an international airport. The extra resources could then be put to better use in boosting food production, improving water and power supply and enhancing education and health services. Bohol’s poverty incidence (34.9 percent in 2003) is higher than the national average.

One can rephrase the earlier question. How can Bohol’s leaders in good conscience be proud of an expensive and questionable project when more than one of three Boholanos live in absolute poverty? Do our local Neroes fiddle while people suffer?

A major reason advanced by political leaders for going ahead with the project—despite unanswered questions—is that preparations are far too advanced and funds have been committed. Doesn’t this reflect bankrupt thinking? First, funds are fungible, i.e., can be reallocated to better use. Secondly, it’s never too late. An analogy is a person who is in imminent danger of contracting cancer. Shouldn’t his physician give the right advice and shouldn’t the patient dutifully oblige just because it’s too late?

The analogy is limited, however. If the patient ignores the doctor’s advice, that’s his personal choice with no negative externality (societal impact). By contrast, if the international airport is pursued despite reservations and risks, the negative externalities will be on society at-large—of the present and future generations.

(Ernesto M. Pernia, Ph.D., is professor of economics, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, and former lead economist, Asian Development Bank.)

nde ko defend si gma ha....but i think some of your observations are not too accurate....

i think food deficit is not a problem....dahil halos lahat ng bansa meron food deficit...they may be sufficient in some kind of food...but they are deficient in others....and tanong meron ka bang pambili...ang sagot meron...so i don't think that is the big issue.......else....nag ra riot...na mga pinoy...kung isyu ang food....agri production is up.....yes ... even rice and corn....i think the problem...here is more on population.....even if we are able to produce more rice and corn each year....if the population is also rising exponentially....talagang nde magaabot ang dalawa.....

bakit....mas marami ang..tayong airport...kesa sa mga karatig bansa natin....that is because...sosyalin tayo.....sila nde...levity aside....that is because we are an archipelago....sila landmass...it is cheaper for them to develop rail lines..or bus routes....i'll bet ....thailand has more rail lines that the philippines....does that mean they have a surplus in railways..of course not...yung malaysia...meron din mga islands....pero kunti lang sila...tayo..we are 7107 islands.....hightide.....low tide...mas marami pa... so putting up international airports....or airports of international standard...is not the issue.....the reason why the gov't is spending left and right.....is because is has money to spend.....have you noticed that this is the only admin.....after marcos...that could claim to its credit....huge infra projects....that is because the president knows what she is doing when it comes to the economy......yung mga nag mamarunong....bakit....the administrations...between makoy and gma...walang nagawang infra...dahil...wlang mag invest dahil alam na walang pambayad ang pinoy....ngayon......alam nila na meron tayong datung...kaya kaliwat kanan ang nagpapautang dahil alam nila na we have extra money to spend....
yung nautical hi-way...bakit walang nakaisip nun......ngayon lang sa panahon ni gma....dahil...alam ni little evil gloria....kung papano...paikutin ang gulong ng ekonomiya....she is pump priming....things....para tuluyan ng umikot ng mabilis...ang gulong ng ekonomiya...yung holiday economics....wala rin nakaisip nun.....kaya yang mga airports na yan....wag nyo nang pag initan...kung ayaw ninyo kami gusto....pag naitayo na yan...dahil ayaw ninyo...wag nyong gamitin.....punta muna kayo cebu....saka kayo mag fast craft papuntang bohol.......dahil....kami gusto namin...derecho na bohol....

[bacolodchamp]

Originally Posted by jaywalker

I think you have a good point.At the moment there are new Airports in Visayas which are of International Standard and are preparing to cater international flights.This will spark competition among airports in Visayas.Even Bacolod and IloIlo new airport could hardly compete with Cebu.They should expand MCIA instead.It would be a wise move if they build bridges from Bohol to Cebu rather building another new International Airport.With the government limited budget they should spend and allocate it wisely.

its a known fact that the tourism industry is a sunshine industry. the very reason why we need to have more airports is that we don't want tourists to spend much of their precious time travelling on the road than their actual stay in hotels and resorts and enjoy. while its true that MCIA is one of the busiest in the country next of course to naia, travellers need to spend 5 or so hours on the road just to get to their destination. so we need to open more airports in other islands outside of cebu and as much as possible international airports to capture the bulk of the tourism industry.

[bacolodchamp]

Originally Posted by kalbongdad

nde ko defend si gma ha....but i think some of your observations are not too accurate....

i think food deficit is not a problem....dahil halos lahat ng bansa meron food deficit...they may be sufficient in some kind of food...but they are deficient in others....and tanong meron ka bang pambili...ang sagot meron...so i don't think that is the big issue.......else....nag ra riot...na mga pinoy...kung isyu ang food....agri production is up.....yes ... even rice and corn....i think the problem...here is more on population.....even if we are able to produce more rice and corn each year....if the population is also rising exponentially....talagang nde magaabot ang dalawa.....

bakit....mas marami ang..tayong airport...kesa sa mga karatig bansa natin....that is because...sosyalin tayo.....sila nde...levity aside....that is because we are an archipelago....sila landmass...it is cheaper for them to develop rail lines..or bus routes....i'll bet ....thailand has more rail lines that the philippines....does that mean they have a surplus in railways..of course not...yung malaysia...meron din mga islands....pero kunti lang sila...tayo..we are 7107 islands.....hightide.....low tide...mas marami pa... so putting up international airports....or airports of international standard...is not the issue.....the reason why the gov't is spending left and right.....is because is has money to spend.....have you noticed that this is the only admin.....after marcos...that could claim to its credit....huge infra projects....that is because the president knows what she is doing when it comes to the economy......yung mga nag mamarunong....bakit....the administrations...between makoy and gma...walang nagawang infra...dahil...wlang mag invest dahil alam na walang pambayad ang pinoy....ngayon......alam nila na meron tayong datung...kaya kaliwat kanan ang nagpapautang dahil alam nila na we have extra money to spend....
yung nautical hi-way...bakit walang nakaisip nun......ngayon lang sa panahon ni gma....dahil...alam ni little evil gloria....kung papano...paikutin ang gulong ng ekonomiya....she is pump priming....things....para tuluyan ng umikot ng mabilis...ang gulong ng ekonomiya...yung holiday economics....wala rin nakaisip nun.....kaya yang mga airports na yan....wag nyo nang pag initan...kung ayaw ninyo kami gusto....pag naitayo na yan...dahil ayaw ninyo...wag nyong gamitin.....punta muna kayo cebu....saka kayo mag fast craft papuntang bohol.......dahil....kami gusto namin...derecho na bohol....