‘Manufactured’ chaos at the terminal
OVER the years, the thought of riding a plane and traveling out of town or going abroad has become increasingly less palatable for me.
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OVER the years, the thought of riding a plane and traveling out of town or going abroad has become increasingly less palatable for me.
THALES Corp. is unwilling to enter into a new service contract with the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) due to its P987 million claims still unpaid by the Philippine government, arising from the installation of the country’s air traffic management system.
THE uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) has not been examined the past three years by a third-party provider, an exercise that might have helped raise red flags in the CAAP’s system and averted the New Year’s Day fiasco that transformed Philippine air space into a no-fly zone, disrupting nearly 300 flights, stranding 65,000 people, and costing airlines and passengers billions.
AS senators commenced their own investigation into the glitch that occurred on New Year’s Day that caused government to temporarily shut down Philippine airspace, the upper chamber too experienced its own technical glitch.
Thousands of flights across the US were canceled or delayed Wednesday after a system that offers safety information to pilots failed, and the government launched an investigation into the breakdown, which grounded some planes for hours.
AIRLINES may have lost “over P100 million” due to the electrical trip that caused the shutdown of government’s air traffic control management system on New Year’s Day.
FROM most stressful to a quiet airport.
A lawmaker on Wednesday said the recent air traffic control fiasco at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) clearly signals the need to separate the regulatory and commercial functions of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), even as other legislators pressed for a joint House and Senate probe in the incident.
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