{"id":88981,"date":"2017-02-11T05:37:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T10:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=88981"},"modified":"2017-02-11T05:37:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T10:37:06","slug":"caap-issues-notice-on-closure-of-surigao-airport-due-to-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/11\/caap-issues-notice-on-closure-of-surigao-airport-due-to-quake\/","title":{"rendered":"CAAP issues notice on closure of Surigao Airport due to quake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_88982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88982\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Surigao_Airport_Mindanao_Philippines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88982\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Surigao_Airport_Mindanao_Philippines.jpg\" alt=\"The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) issued Saturday morning a notice to airmen (NOTAM) regarding the closure of the Surigao Airport until March 10. (Photo by Paolobon140 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Surigao_Airport_Mindanao_Philippines.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Surigao_Airport_Mindanao_Philippines-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Surigao_Airport_Mindanao_Philippines-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) issued Saturday morning a notice to airmen (NOTAM) regarding the closure of the Surigao Airport until March 10. (Photo by<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ASurigao_Airport_Mindanao_Philippines.jpg\"> Paolobon140 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>MANILA\u2014The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) issued Saturday morning a notice to airmen (NOTAM) regarding the closure of the Surigao Airport until March 10.<\/p>\n<p>CAAP Area Center Xll manager Evangeline Daba said a 6.7-magnitude earthquake hit Surigao City at about 10:03 p.m. Friday, causing damage to the 1,700-meter runway 18\/36 of Surigao Airport that needs immediate repair and rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>Daba added that the airport terminal, except for some broken windows and cracked tiles, had minimal damages.<\/p>\n<p>She cited that PAL Express and Cebu Pacific operate daily flights to Surigao Airport from Manila.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The nearest alternative route for passengers to reach Surigao City is to take flights to and from Butuan Airport, which is a two-hour drive by land,&#8221; CAAP said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, CAAP director general Jim Sydiongco immediately instructed Daba and the CAAP engineering team to expedite the repair and rehabilitation of the damaged portions of runway 18\/36.<\/p>\n<p>CAAP assured the public that it is doing its best to accelerate the repair and to put Surigao Airport back to its normal operations very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) issued Saturday morning a notice to airmen (NOTAM) regarding the closure of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":88982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95],"tags":[9420,15041],"class_list":["post-88981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-civil-aviation-authority-of-the-philippines","tag-surigao-airport","mauthors-ma-cristina-c-arayata","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88981","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}