Clark Airport upbeat on new leadership

The recent appointment of former Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief Aaron Aquino as the new president of the Clark International Airport Corp. is a “positive step towards further strengthening the agency’s capacity to develop the civil aviation complex,” Joshua Bingcang, outgoing officer-in-charge of CIAC, said Friday.

“We warmly welcome Gen. Aquino and look forward to further strengthening CIAC under his able and dynamic leadership. His expertise and vast experience in the executive branch of governance is a positive addition to the BCDA Group,” said Bingcang, who is the concurrent senior vice president for business development of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority.

CIAC is a subsidiary of the BCDA by virtue of EO 716, issued by then President Gloria Arroyo on April 3, 2008.  The Department of Transportation exercises policy and operational supervision over CIAC.

Bingcang said President Rodrigo Duterte’s appointment of Aquino as the new CIAC chief would further boost the agency’s efforts in establishing a globally competitive aviation complex at Clark Freeport Zone.