{"id":53556,"date":"2020-02-25T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=53556"},"modified":"2020-02-24T16:45:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T08:45:33","slug":"sangley-airport-in-cavite-officially-opens-and-starts-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2020\/02\/25\/sangley-airport-in-cavite-officially-opens-and-starts-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sangley Airport in Cavite Officially Opens and Starts Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a bid to help decongest the country\u2019s main gateway\u2014Ninoy Aquino International Airpor\u00a0in Manila, the <strong>Sangley Airport<\/strong> in <strong>Cavite City, Cavite<\/strong>\u00a0was recently inaugurated and is now open for use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Sangley Airport Development Project was formally inaugurated on February 15, led by President Rodrigo Duterte with Cavite Governor Jonvic Remulla and Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-53558\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/20200216-CDO21-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/20200216-CDO21-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/20200216-CDO21-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/20200216-CDO21-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/20200216-CDO21.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">IMAGE Presidential Communications Operations Office<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The construction for the 1,500-hectare master-planned international airport hub commenced in 2018 just in time for it to reach the deadline set by the president in November 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The DOTr, in collaboration with the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines and other attached agencies, had successfully conducted an operational dry run of the airport in October 2019.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By that time, the airport\u2019s priority facilities are 100% operational.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DOTrPH\/photos\/pcb.1618243191648144\/1618240391648424\/<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The airport features four newly improved runways equipped with Precision Approach Patch Indicator lights on both directions and Air Ground Lighting System. A newly-constructed 750 sqm Passenger Terminal Building is also built to accommodate up to 160 passengers or\u00a0100 million passengers annually.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to its facilities, two 1,750 sqm hangars were constructed in advance for commercial operations of the airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following\u00a0the airport&#8217;s inauguration, DOTr also announced that\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alphaland Aviation and CebGo are set to make use of the new airport, in which Alphaland Aviation has already transferred its Balesin flights from Manila and Clark to Sangley starting February 14, while CebGo will transfer cargo operations to Sangley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DOTrPH\/posts\/1617878385017958?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAuwvuArBsobqTl_APmbMybLcdF8yewsndpzEtwzJ1p3V36f0R3dFyOAta7NJJvLocOIR4D1GP-_3e2KQ3lA7HvN_JMX5BtFzVaUqMi1w8hfKgp630sHvvCBMhUq-_xYFebpYMnendMEu87Hs7zc2W2X2c21U7ubv2psCeywue6AnmNDAkVWaw_2zpi2PuOKcIg61pwt_HtmosdE3KhTc7dp8EhTLCnRUa0BwIrtlVQhwR1af9360r11kKaxdyc-4m4V2_naPxxh-jMYn-Gx1LAwZSk0ofi3txkyVC2f5ubtyuwlFMyXI3Acz4lQiI3G_m_0U8VENXyLXE4rHDAu8rdZQ&#038;__tn__=-R<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sangley Airport is one of the key projects under the Duterte government\u2019s \u201cBuild, Build, Build\u201d infrastructure program.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Source: <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pna.gov.ph\/articles\/1093963\" target=\"_blank\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Philippine News Agency<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/dotr.gov.ph\/55-dotrnews\/1080-duterte-administration-delivers-on-its-promise-sangley-airport-officially-starts-operations.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Department of Transportation<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to help decongest the country\u2019s main gateway\u2014Ninoy Aquino International Airpor in Manila, the Sangley Airport in Cavite City, Cavite was recently inaugurated and is now open for use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12680,7253,247,272,1234,1232,12678,12679],"class_list":["post-53556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-airports-in-the-ph","tag-build","tag-department-of-transportation","tag-dotr","tag-new-airport","tag-sangley-airport","tag-sangley-airport-in-cavite","tag-sangley-airport-inauguration"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/02\/sangley_feat.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53556"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53564,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53556\/revisions\/53564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}