The second leg of the Clark International Airport Corporation (CIAC) North Luzon Road Show is slated today in Olongapo City (March 27) to promote the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) as the Premier Gateway in the country envisioned by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
CIAC President and CEO Victor Jose I. Luciano last March 20 led the official launching of the “2009 Product Update North Luzon Road Show” held at the Hotel Vida at Clark Freeport Zone aimed at promoting DMIA’s international and domestic flights for the people of the North Philippines.
“I am happy to tell you that DMIA is fast becoming the premier airport of the country as a result of the growing numbers of passengers using the airport to get to their destinations in the Asia Pacific Region,” Luciano told participants and guests during the official launching of the 2009 Product Update North Luzon Road Show held at the Hotel Vida.
Luciano will lead the launching of the first-ever DMIA North Road Show at the Olongapo City Convention Center at 9am to promote DMIA’s international and domestic flights including the on-going developments at the 2,367 hectare Clark Civil Aviation Complex.
Local officials led by Olongapo City Mayor James Gordon and tourism, travel agents as well as officials of the Subic Bay Metropolitan headed by SBMA chairman Feliciano Salonga and administrator Armand Arreza are expected to attend the event.
CIAC Chairman Nestor Mangio; Executive Vice-President Alexander Cauguiran and Tourism Regional Director Ronaldo Tiotuico will also attend the affair.
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 friday, CIAC will hold another Product Update North Luzon Road Show at the Olongapo City Convention Center with various travel agents and local officials in the Zambales and Bataan province are expected to attend the event as part of CIAC’s program in promoting DMIA’s international and domestic flights in the communities.
“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.