Clark International Airport

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The airport of the Philippines Angeles City, today officially known as Clark International Airport known, is located about 80 kilometers northwest of the capital Manila, the municipality of Mabalacat. Until the outbreak of the Pinatubo volcano in 1991, the airport under the name of Clark Air Base, the U.S. Air Force served as one of their main bases in Asia. Terminal 1 is finished and has been extended until the end of 2013, bringing the annual capacity of 2 million previously increased to now 5 million passengers. Terminal 2 in 2014 will be completed in the first stage. In addition, in 2014 the construction of a budget terminal planned at which future budget airlines to be handled. The Kuwaiti investment group ALMAL has offered to build Terminal 3 and thus the total capacity to 80 million passengers per annum to increase. In order for this airport would be one of the largest in the world. When completed, there will be three parallel runways and a railway connection, the handling of the A 380 should be possible.

History

The beginnings of the airport to go back on an American military base, which was built in 1902 under the name of Fort Stotsenburg. The eastern part of Fort Stotsenburg was eventually converted into an airfield in 1917 and was from 1919 the name Clark Air Field. In 1947, the entire base was composed renamed on the Fort Stotsenburg and the Clark Air Field to Clark Air Base. During the Cold War, the Clark Air Base was an important American air base in the Pacific region and played an important role in the logistic supply of military units in Vietnam during the Vietnam War for the United States until 1975. After eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991, which left massive damage to the air base, the Americans from the Clark Air Base withdrew and gave them in November 1991 at the Philip Pische government. In the following years the company was renamed in Clark International Airport and development for civilian airport was continued. Under President Fidel V. Ramos in 1995 announced that they want to expand to the second major international airport of the Philippines to the airport next to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila. In July 2001, the name of the airport was changed to Diosdado Macapagal International Airport, DMIA abbreviated. Diosdado Macapagal was the ninth Philippine president and a native of the province of Pampanga in which the airport is situated. In 2012 there was a but -time renaming back to Clark International Airport. To appease growing criticism at this name change was called to the Diosdado Macapagal Terminal as a compromise the Passenger Terminal 1.

Airlines

Especially low cost airlines such as Singapore's Tiger Airways and AirAsia, the Malaysian use the Clark International Airport as an alternative airport to fly around the Greater Manila. Since October 2013 there is a daily direct flight operated by Emirates from / to Dubai.