The New Year's Day plans of hundreds of holidaymakers travelling to the Philippines were thrown into chaos on Sunday after Manilla's airspace was forced to close.
“This is [an] air traffic management system issue,” Mr Bautista said, Aljazeera reported.
“If you will compare us with Singapore, for one, there is a big difference, they are at least 10 years ahead of us.” The Manila International Airport Authority said in a statement the system has been partially restored, allowing for limited flight operations.“Six hours of useless flying but inconvenience to travellers and losses to tourism and business are horrendous. Only in the PH. Sigh,” Filipino businessman Manny Pangilinan tweeted.
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