Bicol International Airport to rise in Albay
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MANILA, July 15 (PNA) — The Bicol Region will eventually get its own international airport that promises to spur and accelerate the region’s economic development. Despite its vast natural resources including mineral deposits, geothermal power and tourism potentials, Bicol has remained among the poorest regions of the country today. The new Bicol International Airport will be developed on a 140-hectare prime land straddling areas of Daraga and Camalig towns. The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOT) has recently transferred to the Albay Provincial Government P85 million to pay for the property.
The new airport site is deemed safe from the risks and threats entailed when the majestic Mayon Volcano erupts. Over the last two decades, Mayon, whose perfect cone and spectacular eruptions are both tourist attractions, has regularly erupted once every three to five years.
Albay receives P85 million for land acquisition of proposed international airport from DOTC Sec. Leandro Mendoza (5th from left), looking on are DOTC officials and representatives from the province of Albay among them Daraga Mayor Cicero Triunfante and Camalig Mayor Irwin Baldo and Albay Provincial Board Member Neil Montallana.
DOTC Secretary Leandro Mendoza recently turned over the P85 million fund for the new airport land purchase to Albay Gov. Joey Salceda. The turnover was witnessed by other DOTC and Albay officials including Daraga Mayor Cicero Triunfante, Camalig Mayor Irwin Baldo, and officials of the five barangays on the actual site of the proposed airport.
Mendoza said he expects work on the Bicol International Airport to start shortly since, aside from the property needed, its other requirements have all been already satisfied. The new airport, he added, should be finished within 30 months or two and a half years.
Salceda, who conceived and worked hard for the new Bicol International Airport project, said the facility will answer the need for a modern airport in Southern Luzon, which should cater to more business activities in the area and conveniently link Bicol to the rest of the country and the world.
Salceda conceptualized the Bicol International Airport idea four years ago when he was chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations. As incumbent Albay governor, he now also chairs the Bicol Regional Development Council (RDC) which has unanimously advocated the construction of the proposed airport.
Bicol International Airport Terminal Perspective
The Bicol International Airport, when realized, will “catapult the tourism potentials of Albay, serve as anchor for modern business platforms and as a fulcrum for spatial integration of Albay and neighboring Sorsogon province into one common economic market,” Salceda noted.
The site for the project acquired by the Albay Provincial Government at a low but fair price of P28 per square meter, the governor said, was accomplished through proper consultations with the communities involved, and without the participation of schemers. The transactions, he added, also employed no high-handed government expropriations actions.
The Bicol International Airport easily qualifies as one of the biggest and most ambitious government projects in the Bicol Region to date, with prospects of even greater returns on investment that is certain to spur the region’s economy and thrust its tourism industry to the international stage.
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Source: Philippine News Agency
Related News:
M.A. Loterte, Funds released to speed up land acquisition for Bicol Airport, Philippine Information Agency, accessed on July 18, 2009.
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That’s so great. It took me 10 to 12 long hours riding a bus from Manila and it’s a bit expensive too.
i cant wait to fly from US directly to Bicol International Airport..may be we should start an early reservation that would land a US airline during the openning ceremonies….what you think? it would be nice if some would start building a nice golf course in Albay so tourists could have enjoy more activities there..rather than travelling to other places to play golf… dios mabalos,,,
Thanks. I wish this can happen,hopefully. i have a relative in Los angeles, and other parts in the US. so definitely international flights from bicol is a must!
where will be the bicol international located?
who is the contractor of the project?
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I wish this can happen very soon..I kind of waiting fo this..my family lives in Cotmon,Camalig,Albay..and I was born in that place,but we are living now in Finland,so it’s nice to have a straight flight from here to that place..nice…
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good news. though sana buhay pa ako pag nangyari yan.. it’ll really help a big deal
can my marsian spacecraft land over this airport
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This is good. Dakula talaga an potential kan Albay sa tourism. Kulang sana kita ki infrastructures buda tamang pagpapadalagan. Dakol na trabahong magigibo ini na makakataban satuyang paguswag. Pero dapat dai ta malingawan na bantayan an kalikasan, na dai pwedeng salidahan.
Is it practical??? Utang na naman??? Sino magbayad??? If politician wants to develop Bicol start from electricity bill first.
lets start building more big projects like sky scrapers hehe. move forward bicol dream big build big
ano na ang latest plan nitong proposed international airport.dapat masimulan na para gumagana na ang negosyo.go bicol for more improvement.
i firmly believe that this project will be completed. my respect to those who made this airport a reality. and seeing is believing. i see the on-going construction during my visit to daraga. i am so inspired that i started to build a house in my parcel of lot in bascaran. more power to you all.
It’s a great to all bicolano’s and boom economy in bicol region. My question is kelan mag start ang operation ng Bicol International Air port at anong type aircraft pwedeng lumapag like B-747-400 or AirBus -340-300 etc.esp. andito ako eourope pwede na akong maka kuha direct to legaspi dina kailangan dumaan sa manila.good upportunity sa lahat mga bikolanaos nasa ibang bansa. and tourist most attractive ang albay. Gob Blessed to all Bikolanos…
SANA MATAPOS TULOS YANG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT NA PIG SASABI…PARA KADA ULI KO JAN SA LEGASPI DERECHO NA…AT SANA PALAN MAG KA IGWA KI DIRECT FLIGHT FROM SEOUL KOREA TO LEGASPI PARA DAI NA AKO MAG DROP PA SA MANILA….AT LEAST BAKO MAPAGAL ANG BIYAHE TA DERECHO NA ANG FLIGHT…BILIB MAN TALAGA AKO SA MGA NAMUMUNO JAN SA LEGASPI AT ALBAY…PIG GIGIBO TALAGA NINDA ANG GABOS PARA SA IKA UUSWAG KANG LUGAR…GUYS YOURE THE BEST AND IM VERY PROUD OF YOU…
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Any latest update sa International Airport?