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Boracay has emerged as a popular tourist hub. To cope with the inflow of the tourists the numbers of hotels in Boracay are increasing day by day. Also reaching Boracay has become very easy and convenient as there has been an addition in the number of flights. Some of the major flights towards Boracay are operated from the Mactan-Cebu International Airport in Cebu. The Mactan-Cebu International Airport in Cebu is situated in the region of Visayas in Philippines. The region is in the Lapu-Lapu City which belongs to the Mactan Island of Metro Cebu. The Mactan-Cebu International Airport in Cebu is the country’s second primary gateway. The airport is under the management of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport Authority.
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There Mactan-Cebu International Airport in Cebu has a large apron and has a single runway which is 3,300 mts. There is also a taxiway. The terminal building of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport has 2 wings - domestic and international and has the capacity to accommodate 4.5 million passengers. The Mactan-Cebu International Airport in Cebu has been built on an area of about 10.56 km˛. There are further plans of expanding the building of the airport. There are plans for the construction of two jet ways or boarding bridges to add up to the already existing 4 jet ways. A plan has also been proposed for the construction of a new cargo terminal.
The Cebu Mactan-Cebu International Airport was inaugurated in the mid 1960s. The airport was constructed to replace the Lahug Airport. The problem of the Lahug Airport was that no further expansion work could be carried out in the terminal because of safety and physical concerns. However, in the later years the expansions were carried out and the present structure of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport was constructed. This is the second largest airport in Philippines just after the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila.
The airlines which serve the Mactan-Cebu International Airport in Cebu are Air Philippines, Asian Spirit, Cebu Pacific, Philippine Airlines and the South East Asian Airlines. These airlines operate from the domestic wing. In the International Wing, the airlines which operate flights include the Asian Spirit, Asiana Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Cebu Pacific, China Airlines, Mandarin Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Korean Air and Malaysia Airlines. The Philippine Airlines, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines and SilkAir also operate international flights. The Mactan-Cebu International Airport in Cebu serves as a major base for operating flights towards Boracay, thus helping in the growth of the tourism industry in the island.
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