"Only a few months after the New Year power outage that crippled aviation and airport operations, we are again in every social media portal, news channel and newspaper across the world,’’ Binay, chairperson of the Senate tourism committee, said.
The lady lawmaker said that today’s incident pointed to a string of inadequacies that showed how weak, bad and vulnerable our airports are. "Para bang tuwing nasa kalagitnaan ang lahat ng long weekend, laging may aberya na nangyayari sa ating mga airport —almost always, passengers have to deal with bad airline experiences, plus the string of technical glitches. Our gateway to the Philippines has literally become a port of inconvenience to travelers and tourists,’’ she added.
"What happened to the backup and redundant systems that the DOTr and MIAA promised to upgrade?,’’ she asked. "Yes, we expect a certain amount of chaos during holidays and peak seasons. But now, outages and technical glitches seem to have become a common occurrence at our airports--'di na tayo natuto ,’’ she added.