THE state-run Clark International Airport Corp. (CIAC) said the agency’s P2.4–billion horizontal infrastructure projects are almost finished in anticipation of the Clark International Airport’s business recovery in the next several months.

In a recent site inspection, CIAC President Aaron Aquino said the airport ramp and taxiway along the new passenger terminal building of the Clark airport, including asphalt overlay of the old runway, pavement markings, ground service road marking, and aircraft nose wheel stop line signages, and other access road construction are now 99.4-percent completed.

“These completed horizontal infra work are laid down ahead of the new normal setting, post-pandemic, which will be a return to the bustle of air travel and Clark airport’s expected profitability,” Aquino said.

Aquino was accompanied during the inspection by CIAC vice president for operations, Irish Calaguas, with the agency’s project engineers and representatives from the R-II Builders, Inc., the contracting company for the project.

He added the asphalting of the access roads and the taxiway extension are almost complete at the Clark airport’s south-end portion, the area where the globally known aviation MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) services provider Metrojet Engineering Clark and SIA Engineering Philippines are located.

Aquino also noted CIAC ensured the meticulous work completion such as the clearing of asphalt truck tire marks at the taxiway and access roads, repair of pavement cracks or chipped markings, embankment of eroded portions and construction of additional canal with steel gratings.

The projects were jointly funded by the CIAC’s airport infrastructure expansion program budget and the Department of Transportation, the agency with operational supervision over CIAC.