长滩岛Caticlan机场扩建,价格战一触即发
长滩岛Caticlan机场扩建工程预计今年完工，多家廉航明年将开通中国直飞长滩岛的新航线，价格战一触即发Cebu Pacific, PAL, AirAsia plan Boracay expansion. Will new runway at Caticlan lead to overcapacity?Cebu Pacific, Philippine Airlines and Philippines AirAsia are planning to pursue rapid expansion at Caticlan Airport in 2015 following the completion of a highly anticipated runway extension project. Caticlan is the closest airport to the popular Philippine resort island of Boracay but has seen limited growth over the years as it could only handle regional aircraft.Caticlan is expected to see the launch of international flights from all three of the main airline groups in the Philippines as well as from some foreign carriers. Several of these flights will be transferred from Kalibo, an airport about 70km from Boracay that has seen rapid growth due to the constraints at Caticlan, which is only a 10min ferry trip from Boracay.
Traffic on Caticlan-Manila is also expected to grow as Cebu Pacific and PAL upgrade flights from turboprops to A320s and as AirAsia enters the market. Caticlan-Manila is already the 10th largest domestic route in the Philippines while Kalibo-Manila, which will almost certainly see a decline in traffic, is now the fourth largest.
Caticlan Airport runway extension to be completed by Mar-2016
Philippine consortium San Miguel began a major construction project at Caticlan in mid-2014 after winning a 25-year contract to rehabilitate, expand and operate the airport. A hill was flattened as part of the first phase, enabling the airport’s only runway to be expanded from 950m to 1800m.
San Miguel is also renovating the current terminal, expanding the apron and building a new international terminal. New navigational equipment is being installed to enable operations in bad weather. Flights now have to divert to Kalibo or be cancelled during bad weather or heavy winds as the Caticlan Airport had limited infrastructure and a very short runway which could only be used in one direction due to the hilly terrain.
Philippine carriers expect the airport to be able to accommodate jets from the beginning of the next northern summer season in late Mar-2016. But the new international flights will likely be phased in over several months as not all parts of the project may be completed at once.
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