The Executive Director of the Air Transportation Office, Daniel Demagiba, yesterday created an 11-man team to study the request of Mayor Evelio Leonardia for the reopening of the Bacolod airport.

The Bacolod airport was shut down Jan. 17 after the last flight to give way for the opening of the P5.6 billion New Bacolod-Silay Airport in Silay City on Jan. 18.

Demagiba said he issued an office order creating the team with Director Wilfredo Borra of the Airways Navigational Services as chairman and Inocencio Esierto as vice chairman.

All of the nine other members of the team are technical personnel who will listen to the position of Bacolod and may come to the city to conduct another ocular inspection, Demagiba told DYEZ Aksyon Radyo.

The team will determine the viability of reopening the Bacolod airport, taking into consideration the facts presented by the group lobbying for it, Demagiba said.

Demagiba admitted that a report he submitted to Transportation Secretary Leandro Mendoza last month recommended the continued closure of the Bacolod airport.

The decision of the 11-man team will depend on the presentation of the Bacolod group, he said.*CPG

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