{"id":24557,"date":"2014-09-02T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=24557"},"modified":"2014-09-02T22:14:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T14:14:26","slug":"tacloban-flights-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/02\/tacloban-flights-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Tacloban flights suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24566\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24566\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Tacloban_Airport.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24566\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Tacloban_Airport-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Tacloban Airport, Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Tacloban_Airport-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Tacloban_Airport-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Tacloban_Airport.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tacloban Airport, Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Because of the \u201cfast developing potholes\u201d on the airport\u2019s runway, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) has suspended all flights to the Tacloban Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Airline operators said the potholes could damage their planes and compromise the saftey of passengers.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Monday, Daniel Romualdez Airport will be closed on Sept. 3 to Sept. 4 &#8220;for turbo propeller aircraft only.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cJets like Airbus A320 or Boeing B737 will resume flights thereat only after the total replacement of the five-inch asphalt on the whole runway is done,\u201d the CAAP said in the statement.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The CAAP official said larger commercial jets are unlikely to use it for \u201cmonths\u201d as broader repairs will be undertaken.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The airport&#8217;s 2,100-meter runway serves a total of 24 flights per day, according to\u00a0<span style=\"color: #484848;\">CAAP chief financial officer, Rodante Joya, in an interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe continuing deterioration of the runway surface must be addressed immediately for the safety of all aircraft landing in Tacloban,\u201d Joya said.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Because of the \u201cfast developing potholes\u201d on the airport\u2019s runway, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":24566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[2092,1338],"class_list":["post-24557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-airport","tag-tacloban","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}