Due to the massive airport incident on new year’s day, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos has ordered to speed up the deal with maintenance provider Sumitomo-Thales to modernize the country’s aviation safety system.
President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. inspects the Terminal 3 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport five days after the air traffic system outage that affected 64,000 passengers on Jan. 1, 2023.
Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista said Marcos made the directive during a meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 24, to provide updates on the Ninoy Aquino International Airport systems glitch last Jan. 1.
In an interview on Monday, Marcos revealed that during his trip to New York, the Philippine delegation met with the group that was running Gatwick Airport in the United Kingdom and asked if they could come to the Philippines to help with airport maintenance concerns. “They were here last week to look at the operations of the airport, and especially since we had that problem on New Year’s Day. At most, we will have a management contract,” Marcos said.and that the government is considering a management contract on airport operations.
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