AIRPORT PRIVATIZATION NEEDED – PPP CENTER

THE government needs to privatize airports to

Private Partnership (PCC) Center said after the International Air Transport Association (IATA) warned last week about the negative impact of such

“The Philippines is competing with the rest of Asia in business

investors and tourists will see is the airport, so we really have to airports, he replied: “Tell me a government airport that is matching what Singapore, Hong Kong, [ and] Malaysia [ have]. I don’t want to say it (government) is not has fully lived up to “It its promised is important that govern-

focusing on solutions that will deliver the best economic and so-

for short-term cash injection to the Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) Director Max Sangil warned that auctioning off a 25-year concession agreement to operate

Airport in Pampanga province to the private sector may endanger the The government selects, finances, and builds such projects through public budding, and after they are completed puts their operations and maintenance up for bidding by private companies.

“That is something the BCDA is - sideration as it enters into agreement with the private sector,” Pecson said. The employees “have a very - ers. They cannot just be neglected,” he added.

nomic impact of the airport.

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- all impact, not the individual. There are plus and minuses; you cannot just