According to a notice to airmen (Notam) issued by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), primary runway 06/24 and secondary runway 13/31 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) will be temporarily closed to commercial flights on Tue, Jan 26, from 2:30pm to 3:30pm, when Japan’s Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are expected to arrive.
“The imperial couple will arrive on board Japan’s Air Force One, a Boeing 747-400 aircraft, for their five-day official visit,” reports Jeannette I. Andrade in Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The report indicated that “flight operations at the NAIA start to peak at 2pm daily, with at least 40 flights in an hour at the NAIA, thousands of passengers are expected to be affected by the runway shutdown.”
CAAP will once again close the said runways on Sat, Jan 30, from 11am to noon, when Japan’s imperial couple flies home.
