$500-M new PAL airport

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SA passionate on PAL airport

RSA passionate on PAL airport
DEMAND AND SUPPLY By Boo Chanco (The Philippine Star) Updated September 24, 2012 12:00 AM

“Mark this day in your diary… Sept. 20, 2012… put down there that on this day Ramon Ang told you by this time next year, a new international airport will start to rise.”

That was how San Miguel Big Boss Ramon Ang responded to my question about how serious he is in putting up a new international airport. Over lunch at his office with PhilStar Columnist Cito Beltran, RSA still won’t tell us where exactly his new airport will be. He still has to sign up a few more hectares of land for an airport that promises to be even larger than the current Clark International.

RSA told us that every Filipino will be proud of this new airport. It will have four runways, two exclusively for take offs and two only for landings. The terminal building will be state of the art in ecologically responsible architecture. There will be solar panels and will be so designed to minimize power consumption for air conditioning.

The latest in aviation navigation facilities will be there… the same stuff the government has been hesitating to acquire for NAIA all these years. It will be connected to the Bonifacio and Makati business districts by a 10 lane expressway that will cut travel time to just a maximum of 20 minutes. He could put an express train for another billion dollars, he said, but he doesn’t think it is necessary.

Contrary to earlier reports, RSA said the new airport will serve not just PAL but all other international and domestic carriers including arch rival Cebu Pacific. Once it is up, he promised, Filipinos will no longer feel embarrassed with foreign visitors because the days of having the world’s worse airport will be over.

How would he fund it? That’s not a problem, he insists. He has sounded off a number of sovereign wealth funds in the region and they are just looking for a project such as this. He also promises to deliver it within three years… within the term of P-Noy.

But what about government permits? Wouldn’t that slow him down? I told him that the current CAAP chief isn’t too hot about the idea of a private sector led major airport too close to Clark and NAIA.

RSA doesn’t think government will be in the way. For one thing, the local governments of the town and province will be supportive. Environmental clearance shouldn’t be too difficult, he said, with the panel of experts working on the project. He believes even the President will be very supportive because this dream airport will not entail any government money and will be inaugurated within his watch.

So, I asked him again: do you really think you can pull this off? And the answer is the same, he has no doubts he can pull it off. He explains that he is a dreamer. He doesn’t dwell on problems of the past but moves on to a better world. And he makes it happen.

“No one believed I could pull off what I have so far accomplished but I did,” he declared. He said he doesn’t let his critics and naysayers bog him down. He just goes on to prove them wrong.

I don’t honestly know if RSA can pull off this big project and I have my doubts. But I certainly hope he would succeed. Given that government has proven itself unable to do anything about NAIA and even about Clark all these years, I am ready to support any private sector effort to get the job done. We have nothing to lose anyway, since RSA will not be risking government money.

I hope the President, the new DOTC leadership and private sector leaders will help get this dream airport realized. Maybe just this once, we can hold back on the crab mentality.

And the timing is right… we are flavor of the month among investors or so they say. If the sovereign wealth funds see we have a serious project that is supported by everyone, raising the money should be a breeze.

This may be our last chance to have a respectable airport. If we are going to depend on government, it isn’t going to happen. DOTC can’t even open up Terminal 3 to full use after over a decade of it being a white elephant.

RSA passionate on PAL airport - DEMAND AND SUPPLY By Boo Chanco - The Philippine Star » News » Business

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kung ituloy nalang sana yun northrail project! kahit dina bullet train pero can run 150kph ok na yun...sabi ng Caap regulation that says no international airport should be built within 24 kilometers of an existing international airport.

related to that:
Abaya keen on Clark as main Philippine airport
Abaya keen on Clark as main Philippine airport | ABS-CBN News

bad for northrail project

“But Northrail is no longer an option. I think they are now winding down,” he said.

anu daw!? NAIA for sale?

He said proceeds from the sale of the NAIA complex would fund the transfer to and improvement of Clark International Airport.

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Dapat tapos na ang North Rail Project going to Clark years ago. May isa kasing LP Senator na humarang diyan before. Di kasi siya naambunan ng Chinese contractor dito. Binangonan International Airport? Congested ang Manila East Road from Ortigas Avenue Extension going here, saan nila ilalagay ang highway going to the airport? Build Skyway on top of Laguna Lake? Or build a megadike/ road along lakeshore towns of Taytay, Angono, Binangonan? Todas ang fishing industry nila dito.

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Dapat tapos na ang North Rail Project going to Clark years ago. May isa kasing LP Senator na humarang diyan before. Di kasi siya naambunan ng Chinese contractor dito. Binangonan International Airport? Congested ang Manila East Road from Ortigas Avenue Extension going here, saan nila ilalagay ang highway going to the airport? Build Skyway on top of Laguna Lake? Or build a megadike/ road along lakeshore towns of Taytay, Angono, Binangonan? Todas ang fishing industry nila dito.

yung C6. pag inayos yun, minutes lang going to makati.

[timrev]

saan kaya sa bulacan gagawin yan PAL airport?....sigurado darami establishment sa paligid nyan skyrocket agad price ng lupa jan oras na malaman kung saan sa bulacan...

pwedeng sa tabi lang ng NLEX yan...my nakita ako sa wikimapia.org sa balagtas, bulacan daw

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Gawin na iyan ng magka-alaman na...

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[timrev]

Dapat tapos na ang North Rail Project going to Clark years ago. May isa kasing LP Senator na humarang diyan before. Di kasi siya naambunan ng Chinese contractor dito. Binangonan International Airport? Congested ang Manila East Road from Ortigas Avenue Extension going here, saan nila ilalagay ang highway going to the airport? Build Skyway on top of Laguna Lake? Or build a megadike/ road along lakeshore towns of Taytay, Angono, Binangonan? Todas ang fishing industry nila dito.

grabe kasi yun corruption jan sa Northrail project na yan! sayang yun project kung natuloy sana si Pnoy nanaman ang magiinagurate nyan....mabundok yun sa binangonan problem din if sakali yun roads papunta dun

tignan nyo to:

Laguna Lakeshore Recovery and Development Project

http://wwf.org.ph/wwf3/downloads/pub...evt%20Proj.pdf

makikita nyo my airport sa plan ayaw kasi mapost dito tsikot

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Papasok na rin sila Sa telecommunication by next year...exactl for iPhone 5S...


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Papasok na rin sila Sa telecommunication by next year...exactl for iPhone 5S...


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diba meron na sila telecom business? SMC and Qatar Telecom

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Papasok na rin sila Sa telecommunication by next year...exactl for iPhone 5S...
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kung papasukin nila ang telecom ok din yan...magiging 3 players na uli ang maglalaban tutal nag merge na ang suncell & Smart...

sayang dinarin tinuloy ng SMC yun venture nila rail transport (bulletrain)....buti nalang interesado parin sila sa MRT-7

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An 'airport' alright, but wrong place – SMC

by Miguel R. Camus, BusinessMirror
Posted at 11/23/2012 9:27 AM

MANILA, Philippines - The latest development on San Miguel Corp.’s (SMC) proposed $6-billion airport may have been announced on Thursday by a listed builder, which marked out what could be the Philippines’s next main air gateway in Cavite province just south of Manila.

The catch: It’s in the wrong place.

SMC, which has kept a tight lid on the airport’s location since it was announced earlier this year, denied also on Thursday a portion of a public disclosure made by property developer Boulevard Holdings Inc. (BHI)

BHI, which is developing the 3,000-hectare Puerto Azul resort in Cavite, gave an update on its search for a partner for Puerto Azul and its prospects moving forward.

The filing included a map of what Metro Manila and nearby provinces would look like “within a decade” with a large landbank straddling the towns of Ternate and Maragondon in Cavite and marked in green and labeled as “San Miguel New Airport City.”

SMC President Ramon S. Ang said that SMC is not building an airport in the location specified by BHI. “Not true,” he said in a text message, without saying where the airport will be located.

SMC later in the afternoon issued a formal statement on BHI’s disclosure.

“We advise the exchange that the company has no transactions with BHI. Neither does the company have an airport project as indicated in the location map incorporated in the disclosure of BHI,” it said.

BHI officials did not return phone calls seeking their comment also on Thursday. Mauro Badiola, the company vice president for finance and designated spokesman, did not immediately respond to an e-mailed request seeking his side.

BHI, which is led by its Chairman and President Jose Panlilio, did not trade also on Thursday as the developer had sought a one-day trading halt because of its disclosure. Its shares last closed at P0.174 each, giving it a market value of P1.47 billion.

There remains much uncertainty on the airport’s location because SMC has never made any disclosure on where it plans to build the facility.

InterAksyon.com ran a report in September saying that the new airport will likely be located in Bulacan. It cited as its source a report by Malaysia’s CIMB Group, which recently acquired a stake in SMC’s Bank of Commerce.

SMC announced plans to build a new airport as an alternative to the existing Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay City as the group seeks to tap opportunities in the country’s underdeveloped transport infrastructure sector.

It owns 49 percent of Philippine Airlines; the rest of the flag carrier is held by tycoon Lucio Tan, who said his group may also invest in the new airport.

SMC has been veering away from its traditional food and drinks businesses and into higher margin sectors such as power and transport infrastructure.

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Pampataas lang siguro ng stocks ng PAL at pampapogi talaga yung new airport. Mahal kaya.

SMC puts airport plan on hold | Inquirer Business

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Pampataas lang siguro ng stocks ng PAL at pampapogi talaga yung new airport. Mahal kaya.

SMC puts airport plan on hold | Inquirer Business

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drawing na naman si RSA. pati yung power gen nila ibebenta na para bumili ng "proven" na oil and gas field. hirap mag invest ngayon sa SMC.

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3.5 years na pnoy admin...wala pa rin major PPP ah...puro pagaaralan pa rin

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Liberty? That was just exclusive for wi tribe, AFAIK

For full blown telco service ibang company yata gamitin, bell tel ba Sa kanila rin? baka yun Ang gamitin

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Call me biased, as I am from Pampanga, pero Clark naman talaga ang best place to have it. Eh kaya nga Air Base ng US is sa Clark dati.

Im an informal settler in Pampanga during weekends and having a major airport at Clark will be nice however you also have to consider the transport system to get there. NLEX and its arteries are inadequate, theres still no railway, and it will be an extreme burden from those coming from the souther Metro and Southern Tagalog areas. Dadami aksidente nyan dahil naghahabol ng flight.

Things needed for the Clark airport to be acceptable:
- Railway and a good bus system from the NCR.
- NLEX-SLEX link
- Widened NLEX and peripheral roads that can take extreme weather conditions. Dapat now pa lang they expand the viaduct and Bulacan to SCTEX portions from 2 lanes each to 6 lanes each.

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If only we can emulate the airport train system of HK, including off-site baggage check-ins...but that would be already asking too much. hehehe. T3 is barely functioning as it is. No operators for the airbridges, no working walkalators and only one working schedule monitor.

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up ko lang....
sana matuloy na talaga eto

SMC submits proposal for $10-B new airport | Headlines, News, The Philippine Star | philstar.com

SMC plans to build a new international gateway that will have four runways and higher passenger capacity compared to NAIA’s single runway situated in a 400-hectare property in Pasay City.

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up ko lang....
sana matuloy na talaga eto

SMC submits proposal for $10-B new airport | Headlines, News, The Philippine Star | philstar.com


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Puwede ba,- ITULOY NA IYAN!!!!!




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