New Zest Air planes arrive at Clark airport

CLARK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - Airport officials here welcomed four new aircraft of Zest Air that will be part of international and domestic flights that will originate here. “This is and the impending flights of Zest Air...(are) in accordance with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s vision of making the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport the country’s premier international airport," said Victor Jose I. Luciano, Clark International Airport Corporation president and CEO. Zest Air president and CEO Alfredo Yao led the presentation of the aircraft at the Asian Aerospace Hangar in the 2,500 hectare Clark Civil Aviation Complex. “We support Zest Air for them to be able to mount domestic and international flights out of DMIA," Luciano said. Zest Air, formerly Asian Spirit, acquired three M-60 airplanes with a seating capacity of 56 and one Airbus A320 with a capacity of 162 that arrived at the civil aviation complex via the DMIA. Yao said the airline will be mounting domestic flights to Cebu and Davao from Manila starting December 20 and plans are underway to mount regional international flights out of DMIA to serve the Asian region. Yao said another Airbus A320 aircraft is set to arrive by January 3 to beef-up their Asian flights from Clark. He said the December 20 domestic operations include four flights per day between Manila, Cebu and Davao. He said they had also ordered two more Airbus A320s which are expected to arrive middle of next year. Yao revealed that the airline also plans to mount flights to Hong Kong, Incheon in South Korea, Macau, Xiamen and Shanghai in China, and Bangkok in Thailand out of DMIA. “Clark will be the premier international airport that is why we decided to mount flights from the DMIA. We see a lot of potential for the airport and this is a welcome development for the airline industry in the country," said. - GMANews.TV