5 January 2017
Gets ₱130 million for runway upgrade
The extension project was supported by DOTr and CAAP which contributed ₱43 million for runway shoulder grade correction, ₱9 million for terminal renovation and expansion, and another ₱5 million for perimeter fencing. Another ₱10 million was contributed by the local government units of Bongao and Tawi Tawi for lot acquisitions and fencing. The 2005 airport expansion cost ₱100 million in total.
Gets ₱130 million for runway upgrade
Sanga Sanga
Airport in Tawi Tawi secured another boost in airport infrastructure spending
from the Transport Department (DOTr) after bidding out ₱130.756 million for
runway widening and extension (7.5m x 1920m widening, +300m ext), part of President
Rodrigo Duterte’s build, build, build infrastructure development program.
The runway improvement
project is necessary to qualify the facility to international standards (2.1k x
45m) and upgrade its aerodrome type rating as it is the only class 2 airport in the
Philippines with regular Airbus A320 operations.
The airport’s runway was earlier extended
with the help of United States Agency for International Development
(USAID) through Growth for Equity (GEM) Program which invested ₱33 million for
runway extension and airport development. Extension works began in 2005 from
1,608 to 1,920 meters in 2009, and widened it from 18 to 30 meters.
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| 10k liters Sides VMA105 ARFF Equipment Upgrade (Cat 6) |
The extension project was supported by DOTr and CAAP which contributed ₱43 million for runway shoulder grade correction, ₱9 million for terminal renovation and expansion, and another ₱5 million for perimeter fencing. Another ₱10 million was contributed by the local government units of Bongao and Tawi Tawi for lot acquisitions and fencing. The 2005 airport expansion cost ₱100 million in total.
The project was supposed to be followed by a ₱63.9 million new passenger terminal
building and apron construction scheduled to start in 2012 but lot
acquisition problems has delayed its project implementation.
The ₱100 million Sanga Sanga Airport improvement completed in 2009 was part of the
mothballed 1997 Third Airports Development Project of the
Asian Development Bank with a price tag of $93 million covering Puerto
Princesa, Butuan, Dipolog, Cotabato, and Pagadian, which were not implemented because
of lot acquisition problems and delays.
Cebu Pacific started jet operation at the
Sanga-Sanga airport in October 2011 utilizing Airbus 319. It
has since upgraded the service to A320-200 with up to 3x daily services to
Zamboanga during peak times.
The airport broke the 120,000 passenger
traffic mark in 2016.
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| Sanga Sanga Airport Masterplan. Source: DOTr |
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