The tycoon – whose portfolio includes telecommunication and power companies – was himself affected by hours-long stop of flight operations in NAIA over ‘technical difficulties.’
MANILA, Philippines – Filipino tycoon Manuel V. Pangilinan, whose business portfolio includes telecommunication giants PLDT and Smart, on Monday, January 2, offered the government help in creating “redundancies” for air transportation systems, following “” that shut down all air travel in the Philippines for several hours on New Year’s Day.
If our Group could be of any help to DOTr/CAAP, we’d be happy to participate – colocation of 2nd, even 3rd, redundancies in our nationwide data centers, required connectivities – fiber, satellite, wireless – robust even redundant power supply protection etc.Let’s all support.Pangilinan was one of over 65,000 passengers whose flights to or from Manila were either severely delayed or canceled following a glitch in the NAIA air traffic management system.
We’re told radar and navigation facilities at NAIA down.I was on my way home fm Tokyo – 3 hours into the flight, but had to return to Haneda. 6 hours of useless flying but inconvenience to travelers and losses to tourism and business are horrendous. Only in the PH. Sigh.Hours later, Pangilinan said he got home at 11 pm, hours after his first tweet. He also thanked transportation chief Jaime Bautista and CAAP for their “effort.
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