Saturday, June 20, 2009

Park Those Planes At Subic Instead Of Hong Kong

Comment from a reader on "Can SBMA Market The Subic Airport?":

The cost to airlines of parking their planes overnight at some airports is very high. Some airports charge airlines by hour for parking of their airplanes.

Has anyone thought to ask airlines flying into the airport serving Hong Kong if they could save money by flying to SBIA and parking here, instead of parking overnight in Hong Kong? SBMA might pay for the cost of maintaining the ILS in this way, and incidentally, airlines parking their planes here overnight could recover part of their costs by bringing in Olongapo based OFWs and ecotourists, golfers and divers from Hong Kong and environs to Subic.

[The Subic Bulletin] Chek Lap Kok is Hong Kong Airport. I imagine when they fly the planes in for overnight storage they have a load of passengers so flying down to Subic empty or partly empty may not be viable.

The big fear is we could have planes fly in that can't afford to fly out like the two planes sitting at the Subic Airport now. Anyway, keep the ideas coming.

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