TO enhance the air travel experience of passengers, the national government is set to invest another P12 billion to modernize 13 aviation hubs across the country, Makati City Rep. Luis Campos Jr., vice chairperson of the House committee on appropriations, said on Wednesday.
“Our airports are highly dynamic engines of economic growth and jobs creation, so we are all for increased government spending to further build them up,” Campos said.
Campos also noted that under the 2025 National Expenditure Program, the government is spending more to upgrade airports in the Visayas and Mindanao.
“This is most welcome. This gives more substance to the mandate of the Constitution for all regions of the country to be given the optimum opportunity to develop,” Campos pointed out.
Based on the 2025 Aviation Infrastructure Program (AIP) of the Department of Transportation (DOTr), Campos identified the 13 airports set for upgrading and their corresponding capital outlays as follows:
· New Dumaguete Airport (P6.1 billion);
· Tacloban Airport (P2.3 billion);
· Busuanga Airport (P1 billion);
· Laoag International Airport (P750 million);
· Iloilo International Airport (P645 million);
· Virac Airport (P280 million);
· New Manila International Airport (P200 million);
· Siquijor Airport (P200 million);
· New Zamboanga International Airport (P130 million);
· Antique Airport (P125 million);
· Central Mindanao (M’lang) Airport (P100 million);
· New Bohol Airport (P90 million); and
· Bukidnon Airport (P50 million).
Campos said the P12 billion spending for the AIP in 2025 is on top of the program’s P7.5 billion allocation this year for 22 airports under the 2024 General Appropriations Law.
