The Clark International Airport Corporation (CIAC) will lead the official launching of the North and Central Luzon Road Show today aimed at promoting the international and domestic flights at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) the country’s Premier Gateway envisioned by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Victor Jose I. Luciano, CIAC President and CEO, will lead the launching of the first-ever DMIA North and Central Luzon Road Show at the Hotel Vida in the Clark Freeport Zone at 10 am.
The road show will promote to the people of North and Central Luzon the availability of international and domestic flights at the DMIA being provided by foreign and local carriers such as Tiger Airways of Singapore, Air Asia of Malaysia, Asiana Airlines of South Korea and local carriers Cebu Pacific and South East Asian Airlines (Seair).
Asiana Airlines flies daily to Incheon, South Korea with connecting flights to the United States; Tiger Airways flies twice daily to Singapore; Air Asia flies daily to Kuala Lumpur and Kota Kinabalu; Cebu Pacific flies daily to Singapore, six times a week to Macau, five times a week to Hong Kong, twice a week to Bangkok, and daily to Cebu; and Seair that flies daily to Caticlan for people that want to go to the world-famous Boracay Island Resort.
“This first-ever North and Central Luzon Road Show by CIAC will promote these international and domestic flights at the DMIA which will serve the people of the Northern Philippines,” Luciano said.
The North and Central Luzon Road Show kicks-off in Pampanga and then move on to the Central Luzon provinces of Zambales, Bataan, Tarlac, Bulacan and Nueva Ecija then onwards to North Luzon, particularly the provinces in the Ilocos Region, namely, Pangasinan, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur and La Union and the Summer Capital of Baguio City.
“This is an opportunity for us to inform the people that there is an airport right at their doorsteps that can bring them to various Southeast Asian countries for business or employment as is the case with our overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) most of which come from the Northern Philippine provinces,” Luciano stressed.
Luciano also pointed out that more airlines are expected to mount flights to more countries, particularly to the Middle East, as CIAC has secured various entitlements to Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar just this year.
He added that CIAC will also meet with local government officials in the said cities and municipalities as well as travel agencies in the North and Central Luzon where the road show will be conducted to provide them with updates regarding recent developments at the DMIA as well as the Clark Freeport Zone.
DMIA is part of the Clark Civil Aviation Complex that occupies 2,367 hectares of land inside the Clark Freeport Zone. The aviation complex DMIA’s Passenger Terminal is managed and operated by CIAC.
President Arroyo has designated DMIA as the country’s next Premier International Gateway and the center for logistics and services hub in the Asia Pacific Region.