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Volume IX, No. 069
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Thursday, August 8, 2019
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Laguindingan Airport Expansion on take-off roll
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By MIKE BAÑOS
AGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Help is on the way for the increasingly congested Laguindingan Airport in Misamis Oriental.
Even as it opened in 15 June 2013, air passenger traffic at the Cagayan de Oro Lumbia Airport it was designed to replace had already exceeded the 1.6 million design capacity of the Laguindingan Airport’s passenger terminal building (PTB). “To put it bluntly, the replacement airport was congested upon opening,” said a former DOTC official involved in its planning. When the passenger traffic exceeded 2 million annual passengers last year, the need for a
larger terminal that could accommodate the current and expected passenger volume over the medium term became urgent and critical. On a year-on-year basis alone, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines ( CAAP) figures for the past 10 years show passenger traffic at the Cagayan de Oro Lumbia Airport in- Oro Chamber Officials lead by its president Irene Floro and PCOO Sec. Martin Andanar with Mindanao Daily publisher creasing at an annual rate Dante Sudaria and Editor in Chief Allan Mediante in a photo ops during in a meeting at Luxe Hotel, Cagayan de of 8.7% from 902,133 in Oro City. 2008 to 2,079,683in 2018 (doubling passenger volume every 8.5 years.) See EXPANSION, page 10
DOTr and CAAP are now working for the full Night Rating of the Laguindingan Airport. Shown is file photo of the 1st Night Flight to Laguindingan on 29 March 2015. photo courtesy of rich neri concepcion
Army’s finance officer found dead in office BY CRIS DIAZ, Executive Editor
CAMP EVANGELISTA, Patag, Cagayan De Oro City: The finance officer of the army’s 58th Infantry Battalion was found dead with a gunshot wound in his office Wednesday morning. Technical Sgt. Rogelio
Asuncion was found dead with a lone gunshot wound on his breast in his office in the 4th Infantry Division camp here. Dr. Christian Caballes, of the Scene of the Crime See FINANCE, page 10
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