A lawmaker said the recent air traffic control fiasco at the Naia clearly signals the need to separate the regulatory and commercial functions of the CAAP, even as other legislators pressed for a joint House and Senate probe in the incident.
A lawmaker on Wednesday said the recent air traffic control fiasco at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport clearly signals the need to separate the regulatory and commercial functions of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines , even as other legislators pressed for a joint House and Senate probe in the incident.
CAAP was created through An Act Creating the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, Authorizing the Appropriation of Funds Therefor, and for Other Purposes . Its functions include both commercial and regulatory functions, potentially creating conflict of interests according to Daza. “We could no longer afford another similar incident; thousands of lives had been put at risk and will be put at risk if this should ever happen again,” the Daza cautioned.
Daza further detailed that reforming the CAAP will require filing of certain bills to ultimately and officially decouple the regulatory and developmental functions of the agency. “The CAAP must be enhanced to focus on being a regulatory body, while two other operational and independent investigative agencies must be created to perform the mentioned functions. The same also needs to be applied to maritime regulatory agencies such as the PPA [Philippine Ports Authority],” he explained.
Also, Deputy Minority Leader Bernadette Herrera on Wednesday called on the Senate and House of Representatives to conduct a joint investigation on the recent air traffic control service outage at Naia.
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