DIOSDADO Macapagal international airport. or 'Clark has always been positioned as a secondary airport, servicing the city of Manila, trailing behind the ninoy aquino international airport in terms of traffic and revenues. the traffic yield for airport has been mainly regional and domestic aircraft form LCCs.
However, Clark international airport corporation (CLAC) has underlined plans to turn Clark into the primary airport of manila, and also to position it as a regional hub for incoming wide-body traffic form north america.
Upgrading has taken in land side, screening and air side, to turn it into one of the largest airports in the world. plans for three now runways, a series of taxiways, a new terminal
building and a new cargo complex are being drawn up, taking the cost of the project to US$1.7 billion.
Expansion programmer such as these show how critical it is for airports to plan for their future passenger and cargo-traffic projections, Clark has foreseen the limitations of the subic. bay international airport it has rightly positioned itself to be the next cargo hub, capable of handing aircraft as big as the a380f. however, this plan suffered a small setback when FedEx cancelled its a380f orders due to design and manufacturing delays.
some airport in the asia-pacific have benefited form foreign partners investing in the development and expansion activities. the partnership brings external expertise in terms of consultancy and also financial support. in terms of domestic partnership, airport can take advantage of this to create an understanding between airports in terms of capacity sharing. to ensure that each partner grows with each other.