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This is a list of airports in the Greater Manila Area, the most populous urban agglomeration in the Philippines.Though there are several definitions over what comprises the area, for the purposes of this article the entire administrative region of Metro Manila and the surrounding provinces of Bataan, Batangas, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, Pampanga and Rizal are considered its components.
Regulation of airports and aviation in the Philippines lies with the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP). The CAAP's classification system, introduced in 2008, rationalizes the previous Air Transportation Office (ATO) system of airport classification, pursuant to the Philippine Transport Strategic Study and the 1992 Civil Aviation Master Plan. [1]
It also included routes on the Quirino Avenue, San Juan River and Circumferential Road 3 (C-3) alignments as the proposed Inner Circumferential Expressway from Adriatico Street in Malate, Manila to Radial Road 10 (R-10) in Navotas, with a length of 17.5 kilometers (10.9 mi) and on the Radial Road 9 (R-9) alignment from C-3 in Quezon City to ...
Quezon City bills itself as the ICT capital of the Philippines. [120] Quezon City was the first Local Government Unit (LGU) in the Philippines with a computerized real estate assessment and payment system, which was developed in 2015 that contains around 400,000 property units with capability to record payments.
Manila's original airport, Grace Park Airfield (also known as Manila North) in Grace Park, Caloocan (then a municipality of Rizal), opened in 1935. It was the city's first commercial airport and was used by the Philippine Aerial Taxi Company (later Philippine Airlines) for its first domestic routes. [17]
To herald its designation as an international airport, President Fidel V. Ramos chose to arrive in November 1993 from an official visit to the United States using the airport. [2] This flight also proved the capabilities of the airport as the President arrived aboard the delivery flight of Philippine Airlines' first Boeing 747-400.
Map of Metro Manila. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Metro Manila: . Metro Manila is the capital region of the Philippines, and is one of its seventeen administrative regions.
Map of the City of Greater Manila that existed from 1942 to 1945. In 1942, during the World War II, President Manuel L. Quezon created the City of Greater Manila as an emergency measure, merging the cities of Manila and Quezon City, along with the municipalities of Caloocan, Makati, Mandaluyong, Parañaque, Pasay, and San Juan. [24]