As many as 5,000 students, workers, and the elderly living near Baguio’s only airport have been forced to walk or drive around the once-idle runway now that commercial flights have resumed there.
But with other airlines likely to reopen flights to Baguio, runway gates may be closed much longer each day.
In a community resolution that was approved on Dec. 17, Ibaloy families and other Loakan residents argued that the hours needed for closing the runway could be reduced to minutes. The Loakan resolution reminded the government about commitments it made when the American colonial government expropriated their farmlands to build the airport in 1934, among them the “unimpeded” access through the runway of residents and their cattle.”
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