$500-M new PAL airport

[timrev]

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.

[boybi]

yun ang kung walang aksidenteng mangyayari sa nlex.
kaso halos araw-araw may nangyayaring aksidente don.
tapos there are times na bottle neck ang tollgate.

Ganyan din naman if travelling from QC to NAIA. Yung bottleneck sa tollgate may time yan everyday. And kung may holiday or long weekend sure din bottleneck. Pero pag may EC Trip ka, mabilis makalabas ng tollgate.

[rollyic]

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.

[vinj]

btw, huwag masyado maniwala sa mga press release lalo na San Miguel

Yes, i definitely agree here.

Ganyan din naman if travelling from QC to NAIA. Yung bottleneck sa tollgate may time yan everyday. And kung may holiday or long weekend sure din bottleneck. Pero pag may EC Trip ka, mabilis makalabas ng tollgate.

During the December rush, it was faster for me to get to QC from Pampanga then it took my dad from the airport area to QC.

Mahirap lang at this time if you're coming from the south and going to Clark but should they get that NLEX-SLEX link done and NLEX is widened at the Bulacan to Pampanga portions, along with a Northrail project then that makes it better.

[timrev]

sa my Bulacan and Cavite area lang talaga sila pwede magpatayo ng sariling airport ang PAL kung sakali

for CAAP rule pinaka malapit at possible yun sa my Naic, cavite 24km ang layo or sa my swamp area boundary ng valenzuela at obando pwede i-connect sa NLEX-SLEX link or sa side nalang ng NLEX sa bulacan sa my bukid

[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

[timrev]

Offshore airport near Sangley Point eyed

MANILA, Philippines - The developer of Aseana City, located along the coastal waters of Manila Bay, is planning to come up with a feasibility study to reclaim an area for an offshore airport given the expected further congestion at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) with the development of Aseana City and opening of the Entertainment City.

Speaking at the Asia CEO Forum held yesterday, Aseana Holdings, Inc. chairman Delfin Wenceslao Jr., said they would like to conduct a feasibility study to reclaim an area for an offshore airport that would cater to the expected increase in traffic with the ongoing developments both in Aseana City and the Entertainment City.

The airport would be two kilometers off the shore of Sangley Point in Cavite.

Wenceslao said that before starting the feasibility study for the project though, the company would want to get the government’s support first.

“Before I spend (for the study), I want to get a mandate,” he said.

He said that if the company pursues the feasibility study without government mandate, it has no assurance the money spent for the study could be recovered when it loses to another firm after the plan is subject to a Swiss challenge since it is an unsolicited proposal.

Two years ago, he said the company already conducted a study to look into whether the construction of an offshore airport would be viable.

“Based on our study, it is viable technically. The question now is, is it financially viable? That is what we are trying to find out,” he said With an off-shore airport, he said, all that would be needed is to build a coastway that would link to the Sangley area which would then lead to Aseana City.

“Aseana is a nice location. (From there) it would take only 10 minutes to get to the off-shore airport,” he said.

Philippine Airlines (PAL) president and chief operating officer Ramon Ang said last month the flag carrier plans to build an international airport to be situated in a 2,000-hectare property near Manila, which would have a modern passenger terminal and four runways, and would co-exist with the NAIA.

PAL intends to put forward the proposal to Malacañang either by January to February next year.

Given the congestion in NAIA, the government is looking at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in Clark in Pampanga as the new main gateway of the country.

Making the Clark airport the main gateway however, requires a fast rail access to Metro Manila.

The Aseana City is being developed as a mixed use land area. It is located just across the Entertainment City which is being developed as an integrated resort, leisure and entertainment complex that would provide investment opportunities and world-class tourist attractions in the country.

Wenceslao said Bit Micro, an information technology company set-up by a Filipino-American, is planning to put a school for specialized design in Aseana City.

He also said Tune Hotels is looking to open a budget hotel in Aseana City.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/...ley-point-eyed

[timrev]

PAL eyes north, not south, of Metro Manila for new airport

MANILA - Philippine Airlines' planned international airport would likely be located in Bulacan, according to a CIMB report.

"The permanent solution for the congestion at Manila NAIA may ultimately come from a private sector proposal by San Miguel Corporation to the government to build a completely new airport on the outskirts of Metro Manila, in the province of Bulacan," CIMB said. CIMB Group, which is a regional universal bank operating in high growth economies in Asean, recently bought part of the San Miguel group’s stake in Bank of Commerce.

The planned international airport is about 45 kilometers northwest of Makati City, and closer to Metro Manila than the Clark International Airport, which is 100 km from Makati, the report said.

"The Bulacan airport will also be linked to the Makati business district via a six-lane “skyway,” suggesting that access will be via an elevated highway in order to bypass Manila’s infamous traffic congestion," it added.

Ramon S. Ang, president of PAL and San Miguel had said the new airport will have four runways and will span 2,000 hectares.

Ang said PAL’s proposed airport would take a passenger to EDSA-Ayala in only 15 minutes through a skyway. The San Miguel group had also proposed to the government a new line of the light rail transit - the so-called MRT 7 - that would run from North Avenue in Quezon City to San Jose del Monte, Bulacan.

San Miguel had partnered with Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corp. to construct an elevated six-lane tollway from Buendia Avenue in Makati to Balintawak in Quezon City.

According to the CIMB report, San Miguel's plan is to have the new airport completed by 2015, with PAL potentially contributing $500m to the project together with SMC and other investors.

A formal submission to the Philippine government will be put through in early-2013, with construction planned to begin in the later part of 2013 together with a South Korean contractor," the Malaysian bank said.

SMC wants the new airport to occupy a 4,000-hectare site, double the size of Clark’s Diosdado Macapagal International Airport, to have at least two and up to four runways, and a passenger terminal capacity of up to 100 million passengers a year, which is three times the present capacity of Manila NAIA and Clark DMIA combined, CIMB said.

It added that the plan envisions the Bulacan airport to handle 150 flights an hour, more than four times as many as Manila NAIA.

"If this proposal is accepted by the government, we expect PAL and AirPhil Express to move away from Manila NAIA, which could then free capacity for use by other airlines. Assuming that the project gets approved and then takes three years to build, airlines based at Manila NAIA may have to live with a congested airport until 2015-16, as the three decongestion projects we highlighted above would take time to be implemented and are only temporary solutions," CIMB said.

Last summer, Manila suffered from delayed and cancelled flights as the surge in air travel led to bottlenecks at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. The government has since ordered a reduction in traffic at NAIA as a stop-gap measure.

PAL's new airport project comes on the heels of its $7 billion deal to acquire 54 planes from Airbus, with delivery to start next year. Ang had said the airline will buy a total of 100 planes, 26 of which are long-range, wide-bodied models.

PAL eyes north, not south, of Metro Manila for new airport - InterAksyon.com

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and who is gonna build that "six-lane skyway”?