MACTAN-CEBU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

'Mactan-Cebu International Airport' (Filipino: ''Paliparang Pandaigdig ng Mactan-Cebu'', Cebuano: ''Tugpahanang International sa Mactan-Sugbo'') is a major international airport in the Visayas region of the Philippines. It is located in Lapu-Lapu City, Mactan Island, Metro Cebu and is the country's second primary gateway. The airport is managed by the Mactan-Cebu International Airport Authority.
The airport has a large apron, a single 3,300 meter runway, and a taxiway. The terminal building incorporates both domestic and international wings with a combined capacity of 4.5 million passengers. The airport covers an area of 10.56 km².
2,789,699 passengers used the airport in 2005. [1]

Contents

Future Plans

History

Airlines

Domestic Wing

International Wing

Former airlines

References

External links

Future Plans

Plans have been drawn for the expansion of the existing terminal building and the construction of two more boarding bridges or jetways to complement the existing four. A new cargo terminal has also been proposed.

History

The airport opened in the mid-1960s. It was built to replace Lahug Airport, which could no longer be expanded due to safety and physical problems. The airport was then expanded in its later years to become the current Mactan-Cebu International Airport. The airport is currently the second busiest in the country after Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport and serves as the country's primary alternative gateway.
On December 11, 1994, Philippine Airlines Flight 434 was flying on its second leg of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport - Mactan-Cebu International Airport - New Tokyo International Airport (now Narita International Airport) route when a bomb on board exploded, killing a passenger. The airliner was able to make an emergency landing.
Authorities later found out that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb on the airliner to test the bomb for his Project Bojinka plot. His project was discovered in Manila after an apartment fire on the night of January 5 and the morning of January 6, 1995.
Ramzi Yousef was on board Flight 434 from Manila when he planted the bomb beneath a vacant seat. He used a fake identity thus he was able to pass through security in Manila. Yousef set the time for the bomb to blow off when the airline is already in its Cebu-Tokyo leg. Yousef got off the plane during the stopover in Cebu from Manila.

Airlines

The following airlines serve the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (as of August 2007):

Domestic Wing

★ Air Philippines (Bacolod, Davao, General Santos, Iloilo, Manila)

★ Asian Spirit (Cagayan de Oro, Malay, Manila)

★ Cebu Pacific (Bacolod, Cagayan de Oro [begins September 27, 2007], Davao, Iloilo, Kalibo, Manila, Manila-Clark, Puerto Princesa, Zamboanga)

★ Philippine Airlines (Manila)

★ South East Asian Airlines (Bislig [charter], Cotabato, Malay, Mambajao, Manila-Clark, Siargao, Tagbilaran)

International Wing

★ Asian Spirit (Koror)

★ Asiana Airlines (Seoul-Incheon)

★ Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong)

★ Cebu Pacific (Busan, Hong Kong, Seoul-Incheon, Singapore)

★ China Airlines

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★ Mandarin Airlines (Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan)

★ China Southern Airlines (Shanghai-Pudong)

★ Korean Air (Seoul-Incheon)

★ Malaysia Airlines (Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur)

★ Philippine Airlines (Seoul-Incheon, Tokyo-Narita)

★ Qatar Airways (Doha)

★ Singapore Airlines

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★ SilkAir (Singapore)

Former airlines

★ Aerolift Philippines

★ DragonAir

★ Gulf Air

★ Grand Air International

★ Mindanao Express

★ Singapore Airlines

References

1. PASSENGER MOVEMENT CY 2001-2005, Air Transportation Office, retrieved July 8, 2007

External links

★ Mactan-Cebu International Airport
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