Philippines main airport scrambles to restore normalcy after power cut

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MANILA: The Philippines' main gateway remained on reduced operations on Monday (Jan 2) after a New Year power outage that jolted its air traffic control, with auth

that jolted its air traffic control, with authorities scrambling to resume full service after more than 300 flights were disrupted.

The outage was the result of the unprecedented failure of both primary and secondary power supplies, he said. There were 361 flights either delayed, cancelled or diverted to other regional airports on Sunday, affecting about 65,000 passengers, while numerous other flights were forced to re-route to avoid Philippine airspace.

Chiong said the airport had introduced its own power system in 2018 but on Sunday, both the main and backup systems failed.

 

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