CAAP vows safer air travel for Pinoys
By Jerome Aning
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) will continue to cleanse its ranks of corrupt personnel to make air travel safer for all Filipinos, the agency’s chief said.
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) will continue to cleanse its ranks of corrupt personnel to make air travel safer for all Filipinos, the agency’s chief said.
Get the country’s airlines off the watch lists of the United States and the European Union, and watch the Philippines soar, President Aquino told aviation officials, on Monday, during the fifth anniversary of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP).
After more than five years, local airlines may soon be allowed to fly again to Europe and to expand their operations in the United States after the government successfully passed a safety audit by the world’s aviation regulatory body.
An “unruly” Filipino passenger, said to be one of the country’s special envoys, was off-loaded, on Monday, from a Hong Kong-bound flight of Cathay Pacific.
Several domestic and international flights at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) were delayed due to defective aviation equipment used by air traffic controllers, an official of the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) said.
