Philippines to boost flights for budget Asian Airlines from Clark Special Economic Zone
By SwizStick • Sep 27th, 2005 • Category: Airlines, QuickNewsThe Philippines has used the former US Clark Air Base as a special economic zone with its own airport. They opened up the airport to cargo flights in 2003 and passenger flights quickly followed. Now they plan to increase the current number of flights from 37 a week to 50 :
The Clark airport expects to nearly double the number of passengers to 40,000 next month from the present monthly average of 22,000, he added.
“Clark is the future of aviatio,” Mendoza said. “The increased activity is due to the government’s decision to open Clark skies to low-cost carriers.”
Families of overseas Filipino workers in nearby countries such as Singapore and Malaysia have been taking advantage of cheap airfares being offered by budget airlines operating from Clark, Mendoza said.
Mendoza said the new carriers were from Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Express, a source said, will start operating initially chartered flights to and from the former military airbase.
Thai Air Asia is still following up on its request to launch a Bangkok-Macau-Clark route.
Two budget carriers — Malaysia’s AirAsia Berhad and Singapore’s Tiger Airways Ltd. — have been operating from Clark since April. They have increased flights to keep up with market demand.
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