“But we did emergency procurement of two additional UPS because our current UPS is already mid-life. The UPS life is between five to 10 years. Our position is that, why wait seven to 10 years when this is vital equipment, so we procured two right away as a measure to prevent this [New Year’s day Philippine airspace shutdown] from happening again,” Tamayo added.
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines has purchased two uninterruptible power supply to prevent another air traffic management system malfunction that happened on New Year’s Day and resulted in Philippine airspace shutdown.
It can be recalled that the UPS did not function during the shutdown of Philippine airspace for about seven hours. Tamayo, however, maintained that CAAP has enough competent personnel running the air traffic management system. “The airline losses are at P100 million, but we have to admit the amount [of losses] on the part of individuals affected, mailap po ito [compensation amount]. We are trying hard to have reference values kasi malaking perwisyo po ito, there are those whose employment were put in jeopardy,” he said.
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