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Bautista. But the transportation chief probably “misspoke or was misinterpreted,” he said.

“You cannot privatize an airport, to begin with. They cannot own the airport. A private firm cannot own the airport,” Marcos said.

He said, however, that the government was looking to hire a foreign private company to manage traffic and increase movement at NAIA.

He said he and other government officials met with a company, which he did not name, during their trip to New York City last year.

“They said that without new equipment, without building a 