Breakthrough
The campaign of Davao for an “open skies” policy has gained a tremendous boost last week when NEDA Director General Secretary Romulo Neri brought up the idea to the President.
The President, accordingly, gave consent to study the proposal.
Three years ago, Davao asked for this air liberalization policy but the President granted only the request of the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in Clark. Since then, many new foreign air lines - mostly budget carriers - serviced the central Luzon airport.
An “open skies” regime for Davao and the eventual service by more foreign air carriers would augur well to the goals of develoment in Mindanao. It would benefit not only local travelers and foreign tourists, but many Mindanao overseas contract workers returning home from abroad.
eric john villasor said,
August 16, 2007 @ 3:04 am
yup i heard this one .. but the problem here is, if it will be implemented - “open skies”. Local carrier like PAL will be incompetitive in terms of prices since most foreign carriers are subsidize by their government like singapore and dubai i think.
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