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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.
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]
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.
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 2,202-square-meter (23,700 sq ft) terminal building, [20] 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 ...
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It mostly catered to domestic flights from Manila and international flights from nearby countries of China, Hong Kong and Singapore and as far as Honolulu, Hawaii. In 2003, the airport was an epicenter of concern for authorities during the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak during which it continued to receive flights from China and Singapore , two of ...
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 ...