Bantayan & Camotes islands

CEBU’S PROVINCIAL government and the Mactan-Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA) have agreed to collaborate for the reopening of the airports in the islands of Bantayan and Camotes, two of Cebu’s most popular tourist destinations. The local government will take care of rehabilitating the facilities, while MCIAA will handle operations. “We will develop and fix the runway of these two airports,” Cebu Governor Hilario P. Davide said in a statement following a meeting with MCIAA officials last week. Another meeting, along with officials of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), is set in the last week of November to further discuss the partnership, which will be formalized in an agreement. CAAP, MCIAA and the Cebu government used to jointly operate these two airports until the memorandum of agreement expired in 2013. CAAP then closed the Camotes airport, while it continued to operate the one in Bantayan until last Nov. 15.

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