LIGHT aircraft operations at Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) will be transferred to the Danilo Atienza Air Base in Sangley Point, south of Manila within a month to ease congestion at the main national airport, reports the Manila Standard.
    "At present, the Department of Transportation and Communications and the Department of National Defence are discussing plans to transfer the general aviation (light aircraft operations) from NAIA to Sangley," Philippines President Benigno Aquino told the media in Corregidor.
    To reduce congestion in NAIA, we will move the general aviation in Sangley within a month or so. They have given a timetable of more or less a month," he said at the sidelines of the commemoration of the Fall of Corregidor.
    The transportation department earlier announced plans to reduce the load on the runway and taxiways by transferring general aviation to the air bases in either Sangley or Lipa, Batangas.
    The takeoff and landing times of flying schools have already been restricted and have been asked to relocate to another site to decongest NAIA. Private flights, particularly prop aircraft, will soon follow.
    Airliner Operators Council members backed the plan to reduce the number of domestic flights to help decongest NAIA by moving the general aviation traffic to Sangley Point.

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