Ending Philippines’ airport, logistics woes: Inquirer

A man walks beside a damaged Korean Air plane after it overshot the runway at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport in Cebu, central Philippines on Oct 24, 2022. - AP

MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network- The Korean Air mishap at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport last Sunday night thankfully resulted in no casualties among the flight’s passengers and crew or people on the ground, especially residents of a community just a couple of hundred metres from where the aircraft came to a stop after overshooting the runway while landing in bad weather.

But the indirect casualties—figuratively speaking—are difficult to quantify and will almost certainly amount to billions of pesos in economic damage to the Philippines’ second largest metropolis, no thanks to the cancellation of hundreds of arriving and departing flights over two days, affecting thousands of passengers and several hundreds of tonnes of precious, perishable cargo that are moved by air.