At least 4 senators expressed dismay Monday over the supposed poor administration of the nation’s major airport after an influence outage hit Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Labor Day.
Senator Grace Poe, chairperson of the Senate public companies, didn’t mince phrases and stated the Department of Transportation and the administration of NAIA seem to be they didn’t be taught the teachings from earlier incidents.
“The incident shows another disruptive failure of the airport systems causing grave inconvenience to travelers. Hindi katanggap-tanggap na tuwing may brownout, maaantala ang buong sistema ng airport at ang byahe ng publiko,” Poe stated in a press release.
She famous that the dearth of functioning air conditioners in a number of components of NAIA shouldn’t be solely troublesome however might put the well being of the passengers, particularly the aged, in danger.
“Parang ‘di natututo ang DOTr at NAIA sa mga nauna nitong kapalpakan,” she added.
Senator Nancy Binay issued an identical assertion, stressing that the ability outage earlier within the day got here just a few months after the New Year energy outage in NAIA which “crippled aviation and airport operations.”
“[W]e are again in every social media portal, news channel, and newspapers across the world. Again, today’s incident pointed to a string of inadequacies that showed how weak, bad, and vulnerable our airports are,” she stated.
Binay, who chairs the Senate tourism committee, stated the message that the nation is sending the world because of the airport incidents is “travelling in the Philippines has become an unpleasant and frustrating experience.”
“Para bang tuwing nasa kalagitnaan ang lahat ng long weekend, laging may aberya na nangyayari sa ating mga airport—almost always, passengers have to deal with bad airline experiences, plus the string of technical glitches. Our gateway to the Philippines has literally become a port of inconvenience to travelers and tourists,” she stated.
Binay stated the airports needs to be ready in these sorts of extraordinary and emergency state of affairs particularly in the course of the dry season and lots of people are touring.
“What happened to the backup and redundant systems that the DOTr and MIAA promised to upgrade? Yes, we expect a certain amount of chaos during holidays and peak seasons. But now, outages and technical glitches seem to have become a common occurence at our airports—’di na tayo natuto,” she stated.
Senator Jinggoy Estrada likewise expressed disappointment over the recurring downside at NAIA, prompting him to name out transportation and aviation officers.
“Hindi pa ba tayo nadala? To the concerned aviation and transportation officials, have you had not enough yet? We’ve been in this situation last New Year’s Day and it was even worse,” he stated.
Estrada identified that the ability outage might have been averted if the required measures are already in place like having an interruptible energy provide particularly now that the ability provide is skinny because of the demand throughout dry season.
He stated the Senate committee on public companies had already recognized the absence of redundancy or techniques backup as among the many important causes that led to the airport shutdown final January 1 together with the problem of lack of actual upkeep to the airport gear.
“That would have been enough for our concerned officials to be on the lookout for situations like what we’re having now in NAIA Terminal 3,” Estrada stated.
“Sa pangalawang pagkakataon ngayong taon, nataon na holiday ang ganitong pangyayari, kung kailan dagsa ang mga pasahero sa mga paliparan. Panawagan sa ating mga concerned agencies: Maawa naman po kayo sa ating mga kababayan. Suklian naman natin ng nararapat na serbisyo ang mga binabayad nilang buwis,” he added.
In an interview with reporters, Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva stated the efforts to enhance the nation’s major airport are “disappointing.”
“Unfortunately, parang sirang plaka na kami na disappointing ‘yung ginagawang mga hakbang para ayusin at i-improve ang ating airport, ang ating CAAP,” Villanueva said.
He said the officials who are in charge of the management of NAIA should give a proper explanation on the incident that happened earlier in the day, saying he was not satisfied with the justifications made on the January 1 power outage.
“Wala tayong nakikita na no-nonsense effort para siguruhin na hindi na ito maulit…’yung mga nangyari nung nakaraan, I’m very assured to say na hindi katanggap-tanggap ang pag-upo nila sa mga problema,” he added.
“Again we’ve been disappointed in the past, I hope naman na itong mga susunod na araw wag naman tayong madisappoint and wag naman natin ulit sabihin na unacceptable yung mga ginagawa nilang initiatives,” he added.
The lawmaker additionally warned the officers that they are going to search accountability over the most recent energy outage in NAIA.
While she expressed disappointment over the incident, Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros hinted that the ability outage on holidays could also be associated to the plans to denationalise the airport’s operations.
“One of the recent operational problems occured on January 1, a holiday. Today is May 1, Labor Day, another holiday. Coincidence lang ba na napupurnada ang lakad ng mga kababayan natin kapag mga araw ng bakasyon? May kaugnayan ba rito ang pinaplanong privatization ng NAIA? O talagang dinededma tayo ng mga pabayang namamahala sa NAIA kaya wala nang tamang pagpaplano para sa mga airport?” Hontiveros stated in a press release.
“When we held a Senate investigation on disruptions at the NAIA, concerned government agencies assured us major problems like the one we experienced on New Year’s Day won’t happen again. Pangakong napako na naman ang tugtugin,” she added.
The lawmaker stated the inefficiencies is not going to assist the nation’s financial restoration and it’d likewise have an effect on the roles of abroad Filipino employees, particularly in vacation spot nations the place employers cancel contracts primarily based on strict re-entry guidelines.
Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) spokesperson Eric Apolonio earlier within the day stated the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) reported that the ability fluctuation occurred at 1:05 a.m
Power was restored at 8:46 a.m., in keeping with MIAA General Manager Cesar Chong.—AOL, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
