{"id":9632,"date":"2016-11-15T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=9632"},"modified":"2016-11-15T15:06:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T07:06:04","slug":"puerto-princesa-international-airport-to-open-on-march-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/11\/15\/puerto-princesa-international-airport-to-open-on-march-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Princesa International Airport to open in March 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The current Puerto Princesa airport. Image from Wander Kid Travels.<\/em><\/p>\n

During the opening remarks of Puerto Princesa City Mayor Lucilo Byron at the 6th<\/sup> Association of Southeast Asian Nations chief justices roundtable interview, he has confirmed the opening of Puerto Princesa International Airport on March 2017 after its expansion project.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis airport will be one of the Philippines’ gateway to Asia,\u201d Mayor Byron added.<\/p>\n

According to DOTr, the airport expansion project costs $102.56 million while its design and build contract, awarded to Korean group Kumho Industrial Co. Ltd.- Engineering and Construction joint and venture was worth $82.9 million.<\/p>\n

According to tourism officer Toto Alvior, it is projected to reach 1.3 million tourist arrivals in 2017 alone.<\/p>\n

This project will make Palawan more accessible to locals and tourists. Now, there\u2019s more ways of reaching and visiting the best beaches in the region with the modern and first-class international airport in Puerto Princesa to open next year.<\/p>\n

Sources: Philippine Star<\/a>\u00a0Philippine , \u00a0Flight Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Puerto Princesa International Airport opens on March 2017 after its expansion project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[879,85,878,877],"class_list":["post-9632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-news-and-current-events","tag-international-airport","tag-palawan","tag-puerto-princesa","tag-puerto-princesa-international-airport"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/Wander-Kid-Travels.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9632","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=9632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9696,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9632\/revisions\/9696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}