This is a complicated story involving names.
The airport in Clark, Pampanga was originally called the Clark Air Base. It then became the Clark Special Economic Zone. Then it was named the Clark International Airport (CIA). In 2003, it was renamed as the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA). By 2012, it was renamed one again as the CIA. (However, the passenger terminal still reportedly bears Diosdado Macapagal’s name.)
This year, someone wants to change the airport’s name yet again.
“Basketball coach and Pampanga Rep. Joseller ‘Yeng’ Guiao is the main proponent of the bill to rename the CIA as the ‘Corazon C. Aquino International Airport’ and the Clark International Airport Authority (CIAA) into the ‘Corazon C. Aquino International Airport Authority,'” reports Victor C. Agustin in his Cocktales column on InterAksyon.com.
The report said the bill “sailed through the joint transportation and government enterprise and privatization committee hearings on Wednesday, Feb 19.”
The report then went on to note that “Guiao’s father, Bren, was a long-time Pampanga governor first appointed to the position by Cory Aquino after EDSA I.”
Photo by Josh Lim (Sky Harbor) via WikiCommons
