...............................................................................................................T h e o f f i c i a l n e w s l e t t e r o f C I A C ClarkIssue No. 14 C l a r k I n t e r n a t i o n a l A i r p o r t C o r p o r a t i o n 1st Quarter 2015 Contents 8 CIAC @ 20: Asserting its relevance DOTC Plans Clark 7 airport very clear Tell us how CIAC hurdles4 we can ISO Surveillance Audit without serve you Non-Conformities better. Please email publicaffairs@clarkairport. com or call (045) 599-2888 13 Local 119 & 133 BCDA prepares Terms of Reference for Clark Rail Project CLARK is the quarterly newsletter of the Clark International Airport Corporation with offices at the Corporate 6 Communications Office, Corporate Office Bldg., Civil Aviation Complex, Clark CIAC participates in Aviation Festival Asia 2015 Freeport Zone 2023 Website: www.clarkairport.com 12 Email: [email protected] CIAC, Robinsons, Genesis sign pact for Clark Shuttle Service 10 Busy birthday for CIAC President/CEO CEO’s Corner By Dr. Norman F. Ocampo, AE, PhD By Atty. Emigdio P. Tanjuatco III Office of the EVP-COO No Travel Tax at Clark GAD and the Women of CIAC here is much to appreciate in the initiative of the Department of Transportation ender Development Program Tand Communications (DOTC) to regularly hold an “Inter-Agency Dialogue on the Gactivities in government Development of the Clark International Airport.” asjust if aa shortcrevice two was kilometers formed to away A brainchild of DOTC Secretary Jun Abaya, the inter-agency dialogue seeks not accommodatefrom Mt. Pinatubo. the Hot It looked Springs only to establish an informal framework for a continuing discussion among different Governmentoffices are normal Owned occurrences and that provides soothing and departments and agencies of the national government on what needs to be done to Controllednowadays. CorporationsThese offices includelike cleansing baths to its people like push forward the development of the Clark International Airport (IATA Code: CRK) the Clark International Airport as a major international gateway in the country. More importantly, the inter-agency Corporation. her children. dialogue aims to thresh out specific details, strategies and plans of action to set into The focal point of a woman’sStation healing 3 provides massages the to motion that development agenda for CRK. GAD activities is the The first of these dialogues was recently held at the Widus Convention Center acknowledgement of the loving recovery after exploding and attended by Abaya himself and representatives from the Departments of Tourism, ultimate showcase of natures Foreign Affairs, Labor and Employment, Civil Aeronautics Board, Manila International society while highlighting the Airport Authority, the Bureaus of Immigration, Customs and Quarantine, PNP, Land rightsimportant of women role of that women had beenin our its anger. Mt. Pinatubo erupted Transportation Office and Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board. with such fury that it lowered Also present were Rep. Yeng Guiao of Pampanga’s First District, CDC President neglected before. We do not least a year. It also spewed a Art Tugade, and representatives from Angeles City, Mabalacat and San Fernando. want to get into nitty-gritty of the earth’s temperature for at One of the more controversial and bolder proposals to come out of the first the Xs and Ys of this neglect. We that when swept by rain water dialogue is the call for a moratorium on the collection of the so-called Philippine Travel only want to showcase the GAD huge volume of volcanic ashes Tax among passengers flying out of the CRK. Most of us are aware that, save for those Program of that devastated who are exempted by law, every Filipino travelling abroad must either pay a travel CIAC and its The focal pointcreated of the deadlylarge lahar flows tax of Php1,620 (for economy class passage) or Php2,700 (for first class passage). women. Take out such amount from one’s air fare and it is easy enough to imagine how March 27, GAD activities is the along its path. a moratorium on travel tax collection could be effective in convincing passengers to 2015 marked Yetcommunities these same choose CRK as their point of departure. Consequently, such a shift in the preference an important acknowledgement of of airport passengers in favor of CRK will help decongest Manila’s Ninoy Aquino milestone for provided the International Airport (NAIA). the women of the important role of catalystlahar flows for Even airline executives are totally supportive of this proposal. In a recent meeting CIAC. This is growth in the over lunch, Air Asia Philippines Chair Maan Hontiveros said a moratorium on travel tax the day that women in our society province of “would be the next best thing to happen for Clark airport.” Her view was seconded by the one of the Pampanga Ridzki Kramadibrata, regional director for Airports Management of AirAsia Berhad, while highlighting the from the who said that Malaysia’s air travel industry boomed right around the time when activities of AirAsia introduced budget travel and the Malaysian government abolished a similar CIACfirst substantial for its rights of women that incomes it has travel tax. women was generated.quarry It is true that the Philippines remain one of the very few countries in the world that had been neglected The economic continue to heavily tax its citizens for exercising their right to travel abroad. There are, this year. A domino effect of course, countries that do collect either a passenger service charge, sometimes also conducted for before. called an “airport tax.” In the Philippines, however, airport travellers must pay both a activities has travel tax and a passenger service charge. Hotnature’s Spring treat… is nestled in the of the quarry And while people of the United Kingdom are in the same predicament as Puning economic performance of the Filipinos, a strong argument for the abolition of the travel tax has taken ground in the range from Clark leading to Mt. provincecontributed for greatlyover two in decadeslifting the British Parliament. In fact, starting May 1 of this year, the UK’s Air Passenger Duty has bosom of the Zambales mountain now. In the same manner in been scrapped for children under 12 years old and for children under 16 year old From the staging area at by March 2016. StationPinatubo. 1 in Sapang Bato, Angeles British families applauded this move by saying that “this is great news for families herwhich wrath a woman’s and yet love in the anger end maywill flying off on holiday and visiting relatives abroad” because the Airport Passenger hurt those that are the object of Duty “prices ordinary families out of overseas holidays.” City just outside of the Clark The same holds true for Filipino families who are starting to earn enough to laharFreeport bedded Zone river gate, crossings. a four-wheel The dreams.provide them the guiding light perhaps enjoy a foreign vacation at least once a year. For a family of four, for drive goes through a series of in the achievement of their life’s example, savings from not having to pay travel taxes amounting to Php6,480 could a friend that one can talk to. A be spent instead for an overnight stay in a respectable hotel. majesty of the vertical mountain womanA woman is a teacher is a peer; who a is partner, never As a lawyer, I am aware it may take an act of the Philippine Congress to even comfortscliffs formed and by even the caresses cut of the those implement a moratorium on travel tax at CRK. This much has been confirmed by CIAC river flows provides a shade that lessons. A woman is a provider in inquiries with officials of Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA) mother instinct. anystingy manner in sharing possible. life’s Aimportant woman is which is mandated by law to oversee the collection travel tax around the country. that go through it; like a woman’s Even so, it is an idea whose time has come. It is an idea I am willing to actively The trip that passes by the advance. It is an idea I hope will find similar support among local government executives heart. A woman is a mother that and congressional representatives from areas surrounding Clark International Airport. a fighter with the softest, loving springsSpa at Station provide 2 leadsthe water you tofor the hotStation bath 3 pools. where the Puning hot loves her children like our God Station 3 is nestled in the that loves all of us; always loving Atty. Emigdio P. Tanjuatco III mother.and giving A WOMAN without expectingis a WOMAN! President and CEO anything in return. A woman is a ash covered mountains that is Clark 3 CIAC hurdles ISO Surveillance Audit without non-conformities T he Clark International Airport Corporation (CIAC) once again passed the stringent Surveillance Audit on ISO- 9001:2008 Quality Management System conducted by the TUV Rheinland Philippines, Inc. on March 4, 2015. objectives.” The Audit Report of TUV Rheinland Auditors Grace del Rosario, Melchor Camina, Jogina Mendiola, and Jose Pacete noted that CIAC has “established and maintained an effective system to ensure compliance with its policies and process The and auditorsall Internal also Operating confirmed Processes. that CIAC “complies with, adequately maintains, and implements the requirements of the standard.” The scope of the audit involves the efficiency of the corporation’s International Passenger Facilitation Clark International Airport Corporation President & Chief Executive Officer Emigdio P. Tanjuatco III reported that the external auditors, using a sample approach method, did not observe any non-conformity in CIAC’s operations.