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“There should be a devoted expressway going to the airport terminal, that will bring back the 15 minutes travel time to the airport,” del Mar told reporters during an earlier interview.

He said, though, that the proposal will go through a lengthy process, and that feasibility studies have to be made.

Del Mar said he already brought up his proposal to Department of Transportation and Communications Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya during a recent meeting with Cabinet members in Malacañang.

“Wala siya mubalibad (He didn’t reject it) but we need to discuss it further,” he said of his proposal, which is pending before the House committee on transportation.

Proposals for a third connection to Mactan Island were raised in recent years amid the growing traffic problem in major thoroughfares leading to the two Mandaue-Mactan bridges.

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He said the airport’s capacity will only be good until 2024, or even earlier.

Records of MCIA showed that there were close to 1.5 million passengers and 23,281 aircraft that landed and left the MCIA in 1991.

In 2012, the number of passengers increased to 6.7 million and the number of aircraft to 58,888.

A single runway can accommodate approximately 202,000 aircraft movements annually in a 16-hour operation, the Airport Development Reference Manual of the International Air Transport Association said.

“The MCIA serves as a hub for air transport in southern Philippines and a vital gateway to the country’s economic prosperity. An additional runway would mean more flights in and out of Cebu, which will cause a tourism boom,” Carillo said.

He said that Cebu City stands to benefit from the project.

HB 1080 is the 21st bill that del Mar filed in the 16th Congress. (Sun.Star Cebu)

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