THE regular maintenance repair of the NAIA’s international runway 06-24 on Sunday (July 24) had to be extended for a few hours after a pothole was found on its pavement.
It was learned from Connie Bungag, chief of the airport’s public affairs office, that the extension had to be made from the normal 1:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. to 6:20 a.m. instead, since the repair would involve cutting off a portion of the affected pavement and then asphalting.
She said that the daily maintenance also involves derubberizing and degreasing.
The extended maintenance hours affected scheduled flights using wide body aircraft. International flight operations but continued on a limited scale. As a result, there were delays or diversions of flights within the 3:30 a.m. to 6:20 a.m. window.
The domestic Runway 13-31 on the other hand, remained open.
The list of affected flights due to 06/24 extended runway closure are as follows:
Terminal 1— PR117 Vancouver-Manila STA: 0410H / ATA: 0645H
Terminal 2—PR733 Bangkok-Manila STA: 0330H / ATA: 0623H; PR596 Hanoi-Manila STA: 0350H / ATA: 0701H; PR103 Los-Angeles-Manila STA: 0420H / ATA: 0709H
PR105 San Francisco-Manila STA: 0420H / ATA: 0719H; PR127 New York-Manila STA: 0420H / ATA: 0717H; PR522 Phom Penh-Manila STA: 0425H / ATA:0624H; PR510 Singapore-Manila STA: 0430H / ATA: 0652H and PR536 Jakarta-Manila STA: 0610H / ATA: 0640H
Terminal 3
Arrival— 5J752 Ho Chi Minh-Manila STA: 0520H / ATA: 0623H; 5J804 Singapore-Manila STA: 0530H / ATA: 0635H
SQ918 Singapore-Manila STA: 0540H / ATA: 0642H; EK336 Dubai-Manila STA: 0550H / ATA: 0811H
Departure— 5J116 Manila-HongKong STD: 0430H / ATD: 0655H; 5J929 Manila-Bangkok STD: 0510H / ATD: 0534H; 5J813 Manila-Singapore STD: 0535H / ATD: 0600H;
5J272 Manila-HongKong STD: 0535H / ATD: 0714H. (Baby Cuevas)
