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Flights of fancy
Aug 16, 2010
STARTING OCTOBER 31, 2010 South Korea’s Jin Air will start its daily service of the Clark-Seoul route.
A subsidiary of Korean Airways, Jin Air is a budget airline expected to increase passenger traffic at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA), which is now nearing the annual 700,000 mark.
So read a press release from the Clark International Airport Corporation (CIAC).
“We are expecting more passengers with the entry of Jin Air...Now Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) can go home as often as they want because of the cheap fares.”
So was CIAC President-CEO Victor Jose Luciano quoted in the press release, further announcing that aside from Jin Air, deals have also been firmed up with South Korea’s Air Busan that will fly between Clark and Busan; Middle Eastern carrier RAK Airways that will fly between Clark and the United Arab Emirates via India; and Helenik of Greece.
A very promising proposition for the Clark airport there indeed.
“Luciano is the only CIAC top executive who successfully invited foreign and local airlines to launch international flights out of the Clark airport.”
So praised the release of CIAC’s so-called “Boy Bakal” recently haled to the Office of the Ombudsman by Clark-locating Candaba Mayor Jerry Pelayo for alleged complicity, if not outright culpability, in the demolition of 17 buildings and disposal of the resultant scrap materials in the aviation area.
So, even as we welcome Jin Air to Clark and hope for the coming of the other airlines, we cannot help but entertain doubts in our malicious minds of these announced developments being nothing more than pa-pogi points to prop up Luciano’s position at CIAC. A counter-propaganda in fact to canalize the public mind out of the scrap scandal and the barrage of allegations of irregularities the CIAC Board itself is reportedly throwing at Luciano.
And while at it, may we ask Luciano what has happened to Zest Air and the Spirit of Manila flights out of the DMIA?
After its high-profile maiden flight to Hongkong nearly a year ago, nothing more has been heard of Zest Air. Has it lost its zest for Clark?
After its hush-hush inaugural flight to some point in the Middle East – or is it Taiwan? – the Spirit of Manila appears to have been so dispirited as to ground its allegedly aged fleet not even at the DMIA hangars but at the locators’ parking lots.
So sorry, with aborted developments as these, we cannot help but be guardedly pessimistic with CIAC’s talks of airlines flying to Clark. Some flights of Luciano’s fancy, we see there.
A subsidiary of Korean Airways, Jin Air is a budget airline expected to increase passenger traffic at the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA), which is now nearing the annual 700,000 mark.
So read a press release from the Clark International Airport Corporation (CIAC).
“We are expecting more passengers with the entry of Jin Air...Now Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) can go home as often as they want because of the cheap fares.”
So was CIAC President-CEO Victor Jose Luciano quoted in the press release, further announcing that aside from Jin Air, deals have also been firmed up with South Korea’s Air Busan that will fly between Clark and Busan; Middle Eastern carrier RAK Airways that will fly between Clark and the United Arab Emirates via India; and Helenik of Greece.
A very promising proposition for the Clark airport there indeed.
“Luciano is the only CIAC top executive who successfully invited foreign and local airlines to launch international flights out of the Clark airport.”
So praised the release of CIAC’s so-called “Boy Bakal” recently haled to the Office of the Ombudsman by Clark-locating Candaba Mayor Jerry Pelayo for alleged complicity, if not outright culpability, in the demolition of 17 buildings and disposal of the resultant scrap materials in the aviation area.
So, even as we welcome Jin Air to Clark and hope for the coming of the other airlines, we cannot help but entertain doubts in our malicious minds of these announced developments being nothing more than pa-pogi points to prop up Luciano’s position at CIAC. A counter-propaganda in fact to canalize the public mind out of the scrap scandal and the barrage of allegations of irregularities the CIAC Board itself is reportedly throwing at Luciano.
And while at it, may we ask Luciano what has happened to Zest Air and the Spirit of Manila flights out of the DMIA?
After its high-profile maiden flight to Hongkong nearly a year ago, nothing more has been heard of Zest Air. Has it lost its zest for Clark?
After its hush-hush inaugural flight to some point in the Middle East – or is it Taiwan? – the Spirit of Manila appears to have been so dispirited as to ground its allegedly aged fleet not even at the DMIA hangars but at the locators’ parking lots.
So sorry, with aborted developments as these, we cannot help but be guardedly pessimistic with CIAC’s talks of airlines flying to Clark. Some flights of Luciano’s fancy, we see there.
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