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Clark is Asia's best low-cost airport

The Diosdado Macapagal International Airport or Clark International Airport is Asia's Low-Cost Airport of Year Awardee for 2006.

DMIA dubbed as the Budget Airlines Capital of the Philippines, received the award from the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) during the Aviation Outlook Summit in Singapore.

The award cited DMIA for its contribution to the regional aviation industry.

Since its inception a few years after the devastating Mt. Pinatubo eruption in 1991, the DMIA has now emerged as the second busiest airport in the Philippines.

The Clark International Airport Corporation is planning to expand DMIA's existing terminal to increase passenger capacity from 500,000 a year to about 2.1 million passengers annually in 2008.

In 2006, DMIA recorded over 480,000 international and domestic passengers. Per week, DMIA receives an average of 126 international and domestic passenger flights and cargo flights.

Among the budget airlines regularly flying to Clark include Tiger Airways of Singapore, Air Asia Berhad of Malaysia, Asiana of South Korea, South East Asian Airlines, Hong Kong Airlines and Cebu Pacific.

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