{"id":89707,"date":"2017-02-15T19:41:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T00:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=89707"},"modified":"2017-02-15T19:41:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T00:41:39","slug":"philippines-eyes-more-airports-to-unclog-manila-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/15\/philippines-eyes-more-airports-to-unclog-manila-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines eyes more airports to unclog Manila hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89708\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89708\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/3881858888_85f17ee8ba_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89708\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/3881858888_85f17ee8ba_b.jpg\" alt=\"Philippine officials say the government is considering adding airports to serve the capital Manila and nearby areas, including a sprawling airport city complex that could handle 100 million passengers a year. (Photo: Ironchefbalara\/ Flickr)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/3881858888_85f17ee8ba_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/3881858888_85f17ee8ba_b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/3881858888_85f17ee8ba_b-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippine officials say the government is considering adding airports to serve the capital Manila and nearby areas, including a sprawling airport city complex that could handle 100 million passengers a year. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ironchefbalara\">Ironchefbalara\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013Philippine officials say the government is considering adding airports to serve the capital Manila and nearby areas, including a sprawling airport city complex that could handle 100 million passengers a year.<\/p>\n<p>Manila&#8217;s congested international airport once was dubbed the world&#8217;s worst airport in surveys by travel website The Guide to Sleeping in Airports.<\/p>\n<p>Improvements have allowed it to escape that listing since 2015, but it remains overly congested.<\/p>\n<p>Transport Undersecretary Roberto Lim said a multi-airport system could include the present airport in Manila, an expanded Clark airport northwest of the capital that could handle 8 million passengers per year, another 2,500-hectare (6,177.5 acre) airport in Bulacan, also north of Manila, and possibly yet another airport and seaport in the former U.S. naval station in Cavite province adjacent to Manila.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013Philippine officials say the government is considering adding airports to serve the capital Manila and nearby areas, including &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":89708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[3422,600],"class_list":["post-89707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-airports","tag-manila","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89707","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=89707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}