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By noon, no commercial aircraft were inside the Philippine airspace. Around 282 flights to and from various Philippine airports and over 56,000 passengers, many of whom were travelling to or from the country following the New Year's Day holiday, were affected. The electrical problems were traced back to the power substation of NAIA Terminal 3.
It then announced in September the planned reassignments: Terminal 1 would exclusively serve Philippine Airlines flights, while Terminal 2 would maintain its current status as an all-domestic terminal, and Terminal 3 would be fully dedicated to international flights of Cebu Pacific, the AirAsia Group, and all foreign airlines.
Philippine Airlines offered non-stop flights to Los Angeles, the longest route from MCIA, from March 2016 to May 2017. [19] On August 27, 2018, on the occasion of National Heroes Day, President Duterte expressed support for renaming the airport after Mactan chieftain Lapu-Lapu whose forces killed Ferdinand Magellan during the Battle of Mactan ...
On August 4, 1984, a Philippine Airlines BAC One-Eleven 500 overshot runway 36 by 30 meters (100 ft) and landed at sea. All 70 passengers and five crew survived. [16] On February 15, 2007, Philippine Airlines Flight 191 from Manila, performed by an Airbus A320, overshot the runway. There were no casualties among 113 passengers and six crew members.
The 2,202-square-meter (23,700 sq ft) terminal building, [16] constructed in 1982 to handle the passenger demands of a single airline, (Philippine Airlines, being the Philippines' aviation monopoly at the time), was unable to cope with the liberalization of the Philippine aviation industry and the subsequent boom in air travel, when as many as ...
Cebu Pacific followed suit on November 23, landing its first A320 flight as Flight 899. Both airlines upgraded most of their Caticlan flights to A320s, having previously served by turboprops. [16] Philippines AirAsia, which operates an all-A320 fleet, launched flights to the airport on March 15, 2017, [17] landing its first flight as Flight 221 ...
The first international flight to land at the airport was a chartered Royal Air Philippines A320 flight from Hong Kong International Airport at 4:45 p.m. PST on September 30, 2019. [17] Meanwhile, Jeju Air Flight 4407, a Boeing 737-800 from Incheon International Airport , landed as the first commercial international flight at the airport on ...
In 2023, Vivo was ranked among the top 5 smartphone makers, achieving a global market share of 10%. [12] In April 2021, three pallets of Vivo phones [13] caught fire at Hong Kong International Airport, prompting a ban on air freight of Vivo phones through Hong Kong. [14] In June 2022, Vivo entered the world-famous Guinness Book of Records. [15]