Rafael L. Oriel, Jr.
9 Aug 2007

 

 

Ms Ric, you have a budget of ten thousand dollars and you set your eyes on a grandest throne with marble flooring, Jacuzzi tub and the works?

Of course, you will definitely run out of money or run into other problems if something is wrong with your budgeting. A budget is supposedly a plan based on estimates.

What you can do is to set your eyes only on a throne that your budget can afford, something that your ten thousand dollars can buy. People often canvass prices or get price quotations from suppliers to know how much to budget.

In the first place, the reason for budgeting is to avoid future problems especially those that you mentioned.

On the same token, on a budget of 700 million pesos, it is insane to set your eyes on a grandest international airport comparable to NAIA3 that you said cost US$400 million.

Of course, you will definitely run out of money because of very poor budgeting blown out of proportion. You must not set your eyes on NAIA3 because your budget certainly cannot afford it. You must set your eyes on a much smaller airport like Bagabag, Basco and Bislig airports.

From what I understand, that is exactly what the people of Alaminos will be doing. The city of Alaminos will be using the same technical study for the airport made by Air Transportation Office (ATO) in the past.

On a budget of 700 million pesos, the people of Alaminos set their eyes on a much smaller airport not even comparable to most major domestic airport in the country.

This is exactly what I am trying to point out in my previous posting. The runway of the proposed Alaminos Airport is only 1.2 km. long. They are expecting only to accommodate small jet aircrafts with around 60 person capacity or even large types of airplanes but absolutely not the 727 that Mr. Jeremias Andrade Carrera is talking about in his “Mickey Mouse” posting.

Why is it that Mr. Carrera still insists talking about landing 727 jet airplanes in spite of the fact that I already stated in my previous posting that the runway of the proposed airport is only 1.2 km long? He must be either kidding or daydreaming.

Anyway, like I said in my previous post, examples of airports in the Philippines with just 1.2 kilometer runways are Bagabag Airport in Nueva Ecija, Basco Airport in Batanes and Bislig Airport in Surigao.

These airports are very small compared to the extremely large NAIA3 . These airports are just minor commercial domestic airports unlike the NAIA3 which is an international airport.

It is even highly possible that the combine capacity of these three small airports plus the proposed Alaminos Airport can be less than that of NAIA3 which is designed to have a capacity of 13 million passengers per year.

Inappropriately comparing the proposed Alaminos Airport to the gigantic NAIA3 is just blowing the issue out of proportion.

For sustainable development, it is very obvious that the future Alaminos airport is only appropriately comparable to either of the smaller Bagabag, Basco and Bislig airports.

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