NAIA 4 will be for domestic flights by mid-August

BY mid-August the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) terminal 4 will go all domestic with the transfer of international flights to a much bigger facility.

According to Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) officer-in-charge Vicente Guerzon Jr., by August 15 Air Asia Zest international flights will be moved to the bigger NAIA terminal 3 from terminal 4.

Also set to transfer to Terminal 3 are five Cebu Pacific-Tiger Airways Airbuses.

From NAIA Terminal 3, seven small aircraft offering 20 domestic flights will move to Terminal 4.

The move, drafted two months ago, is expected to reduce confusion among passengers as to which terminal they are supposed to go.

Likewise, Guerzon said that the move would maximize the use of runway 13/31 for small aircraft arriving at or departing from the NAIA terminal 4.

The 400-hectare NAIA currently has two perpendicular runways: primary runway 06/24; and secondary runway 13/31.

Weak Canadian dollar gives visitors a reason to cheer

Visitors to Canada this summer are enjoying more than just the Pan Am Games in Toronto, other urban hotspots or the natural beauty of the country. Many are delighted with the new, lower value of the Canadian dollar.

“It’s good value,” said Boris Nelson, a Colombian musician in Toronto for the Games.

The love for the low loonie extends well beyond the Pan Am host community — there’s a similar scenario playing out in Montreal.

Tourism officials in that city say they’re seeing more visitors in 2015 than they have in the past 80 years.
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Spain’s Ciudad Real airport sold at auction for €10,000

A group of international investors has won a bankruptcy auction for an abandoned airport in central Spain with a €10,000 (£7,000) offer – 100,000 times less than it cost to build.

The investors were the only bidders for Ciudad Real airport, south of Madrid, completed during Spain’s boom years.

But it is not clear if the sale will go ahead as another buyer could still step forward outside of the auction process.
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Red Planet Singing Out of Tune

The Tune budget travel brand has taken a major hit with former franchisee Red Planet Hotels taking its 24 Southeast Asian hotels out of the group and launching a new fully-inclusive low-cost brand.

In what’s been a major logistical exercise across the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Japan, the three month re-branding of all Red Planet Planet Hotels finished this week.
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All British and South African Tourists Detained in China Now Released

LONDON, July 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ —

Following media reports about the recent detention of Hoosain Jacobs and Tahira Jacobs and their 18 friends in Inner Mongolia, China, a UK-based spokesman for the family commented,

“We are very happy and relieved to hear that the nine remaining tourists, who have been detained in Ordos, China, have now been released and are due to return back home in the next few days.
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