2 May 2023
Department of Transportation (DOTr) announced Tuesday that the country’s airspace will be shut down for six hours on May 17 for maintenance schedule of its navigational equipment.
DOTr said the shutdown to Philippine Airspace will allow it to replace an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) unit of the Air Traffic Management (ATM) system installed at the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines complex in Pasay City.
The closure of the Philippine airspace will begin at 12 midnight and to end at 6 a.m.
Ninoy Aquino International Airport and operating airlines were notified in advance of the scheduled disruptions, and would operate early or delayed flights for this maintenance schedule.
NAIA was recently advised by the CAAP that the replacement of the UPS may take shorter than expected.
“These are all proactive efforts to, of course, make sure that the CNS/ATM (Communication, Navigation and Surveillance/Air Traffic Management) is reliable as an offshoot of what happened this year,”MIAA Senior Assistant General Manager Bryan Co said in a news conference this afternoon.
Co said MIAA, CAAP, and airport authorities across the country as well as various operating airlines will also be meeting Wednesday morning to discuss plans for the shutdown.
The MIAA is asking airlines to step up in communicating the shutdown to passengers who will be affected as their will be travel delays affecting their plans.
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