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Saturday, September 25, 2004
DIA terminal leaks when it rains: airline exec
By Aurea A. Gerundio
LESS than a year old and the passenger terminal building of the Davao International Airport (DIA) already leaks when it rains.
Air Philippines manager Deo Escarilla said their office inside the terminal building had leaks every time there is a heavy downpour. In Davao, a heavy downpour is a normal phenomenon whole year round.
Escarilla admitted this during a consultative meeting with Davao City's tourism players at the City Council session hall.
The airline executive said they have been experiencing the problem since they moved into the terminal building last April 1.
But Escarilla was quick to add that the Air Transportation Office (ATO) management is already doing its best to rectify the leaking.
Escarilla also refused to comment on the status of the airport building - its construction, for instance - when the management was turned over to the ATO.
"Well, we have referred the problem already to the local ATO. Every time there is heavy rain, may leaking talaga sa ticket office namin. So what we do, we cover some of our office equipment with plastic sheets para hindi mababasa at masisira," Escarilla said.
Escarilla urged the ATO management to fix the leaks as soon as possible.
The passenger terminal building of the DIA hogged the headlines the other year when Sun.Star Davao exposed the "design failure" that made the design of majority of its concrete beams and girders inappropriate for the human traffic and other weights the structure was expected to carry.
Remedial measures were made that saw the beams and girders being reinforced anew to make it capable of holding up the live (people and other moving things) and dead (furniture, furnishings, etc.) loads it has to carry. AAG
(September 25, 2004 issue)
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