PHL aviation must link North America and Southeast Asia’

SUBIC FREEPORT–Philippine aviation must serve as a Pacific bridge between North America and Southeast Asia.
This was how Victor Limlingan, an aviation expert, described one of the roles of the country’s aviation industry in the global stage.
“(We need to have the) correct policy of liberalizing aviation in the country,” he told some 300 delegates to the Clark Aviation Conference last week.
The conference highlighted critical role of airports, outside Metro Manila, in easing air traffic congestion, identified infrastructure, and policy developments that will attract airport-related businesses.
Limlingan added that gateways like Clark will spur the growth of regional agri-businesses and serve as staging point of highly-skilled Filipino professionals.
This Pacific bridge also offers the possibility of birthing a Filipino global trading company that will truly connect the Philippines with the global movement of commodities and people, he elaborated.
And business travel, an industry player said, is an important sector of that aviation bridge.
“Business travel has the greatest impact on the local economy. Companies locate at business aviation facilities near general aviation airports for rapid access to customers and markets, generating jobs and tax income for local communities,” Joel Edmondson, general manager of Aviation Concepts LLC, says.
Aviation Concepts is a business jet charter company based inside this Freeport.
Edmondson believes that Subic Bay can become an aerospace hub featuring technical training, maintenance, repairs and overhauling services, aside from aircraft handling, management, chartering and air ambulance services.
He uses Seletar in Singapore, a general aviation airport, as a model “producing revenue in the billions of dollar annually.”
There are two airports located just outside mega-Manila area, Clark International Airport (CIA) and Subic Bay International Airport (SBIA).
Clark has positioned itself as a passenger gateway with eight budget and four legacy airlines plying domestic and international routes.
Subic Bay, on the other hand, is poised to become a hub for general aviation activities, including business jet chartering services.
Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) chairman Robert Garcia says that both facilities complement each other.
“With Clark as a twin to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), Subic Bay provides the support services needed by both. Both Clark and Subic Bay become vital nodes for Philippine aviation,” Garcia explained.
He said that because of congestion and rising costs in other Asian hubs like Hong Kong and Singapore, companies are looking at the airports in Central Luzon as potential base of operations. “In fact, we are already talking to two Asian jet chartering companies interested in Subic Bay,” he added.
The two airports underpin the concept of the country’s new logistics center.
John Forbes, adviser to the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, said that stakeholders must have a common goal.
“We need a vision of unified Clark-Subic complex. It might be anchored by an aerotropolis at Clark, but there also is a nearby deep water port,” Forbes explained.
The idea of a Subic-Clark synergy began in 1999 when then President Joseph Estrada broached the idea to then SBMA chairman Felicito Payumo and Clark Corporation Rufo Colayco.
Prior to this, both economic zones treated each other as competitor, elbowing each other for a share of the foreign direct investments.
Both men initiated plans to physically connect Clark with Subic via a tollway, now known as the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEx) linking two airports and a seaport and opening a vast landmass for development.
Forbes added that since 1992 there has been significant growth in jobs, exports, and investment at the Subic-Clark complex.
“Businesses (including aviation companies) are relocating within Asia, within China, out of China, Japan, Thailand,” Forbes noted, stressing that the Philippines, Subic and Clark, in particular, are ideal locations for them.
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Manila families with small children looking for an accessible place for kids to have fun frequently visit private resort in Clark Pampanga to unwind relax in family bonding, top venue for reunion.

Some hotels and resorts offer free WIFI Internet connection to guests. This includes beach resort of Clearwater which also offers free Internet connection in the room as well as in the outdoor areas even near the beach and by the lake.

Fine dining restaurants like Yats Restaurants and Wine Bar also offers good internet connection to their guests. Highly recommended bar, pub and nightlife spot The London Pub located inside Mimosa also offers good internet connection to guests.

The London Pub is a classic English Gastropub frequented by local expats and business community. It serves up good food, plenty of excellent vintage wine by the glass and a good selection of Cuban cigars. The ambience is old English, dark wood, comfortable and relaxed.

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