Mactan Cebu Int’l Airport Commits to ‘World-Class Service’

Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) General Manager and lawyer Steve Y. Dicdican led the men and women of the airport in declaring their commitment in making the resort airport of Mactan the “world’s friendliest airport” with world-class service.

Addressing the crowd of around 600 guests and airport stakeholders including the media inside the passenger lounge of the sprawling Terminal 2 here, Dicdican could not hide his excitement and gratefulness to the government for the P17.5 billion project and its stakeholders.

This, he said, gave the Cebuanos and the Filipinos something to be proud of.

“This is a testament that restores our national pride,” Dicdican said.

Constructed with a projected passenger traffic capacity of 4.5 million annually, the long-term solution was to build a new terminal, and that means bringing in a private partner.

MCIA joined hands with GMR Megawide Cebu Airport Corporation (GMCAC) which, Dicdican said, did a successful job in creating the terminal that Cebuanos and Filipinos can be proud of.

MCIA admitted they first received comments that were critical to the ambitious plan to build a world class airport terminal.

He told the crowd gathered to join President Rodrigo Duterte in inaugurating the world class first of its kind resort airport terminal, that the project was conceived during the past administration.

But he was quick to add that much of the challenges that could have derailed the project was done largely under the Duterte Administration.

A terminal building occupying a 65,000 square meter property, MCIA T2 pushed MCIA and its project implementor GMCAC to collaborate with foreign expertise and local design ingenuity.

The plan was to come up with an airport terminal that would embody the warmth of the Cebuanos and its furniture heritage, using the technologies that would make the magnificent facility an eco-friendly one with minimum carbon footprint, he said.

“We may not have great superstructures characteristic of world-class airports but we will serve them with our warmth and our heart,” he assured.

He then called on MCIA personnel present during the program to stand with him to symbolically back the company in declaring their passenger commitment of dependability, collaboration, empathy, and trustworthiness.

Earlier, MCIA acknowledged their project partners with a red carpet entry of representatives bringing with them pieces of a puzzle which, one by one, was assembled on a board to complete the MCIA logo. (rmn/rahc/PIA7/Bohol)