MCIA GM leads team in declaring 

world class service commitment 

MCIA T2, Lapulapu City, June 7 (PIA)--Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) General Manager (GM) and lawyer Steve Y. Dicdican led the dynamic men and women of the airport in declaring their passenger commitment in making the resort airport of Mactan, the world's friendliest airport. 

Addressing the crowd of around 600 guests and airport stakeholders including the media inside the passenger lounge of the sprawling Terminal 2 here, Dicdican could not hide his excitement and gratefulness to the government for the P17.5 billion project and its stakeholders. 

This, he said was for giving the Cebuanos and the Filipinos something to be proud of. 

"This is a testament that restores our national pride," Dicdican, who first arrived at an airport that had severe congestion issues that increased every day proudly announced. 

Constructed with a projected passenger traffic capacity of 4.5 million annually, MCIA had to put up band aid solution to its problem. 

The long term solution was to build a new terminal, and that means bringing in a private partner. 

MCIA joined hands with GMR Megawide Cebu Airport Corporation (GMCAC) who, Dicdican claimed, did a spectacular job in creating the magnificent terminal that Cebuanos and Filipinos can be proud of. 

Conceived at a time when the country cowered in shame at the deplorable state of the country's gateways, MCiA admitted they received comments critical and unbelieving, of the ambitious plan to build a world class airport terminal. 

"It is as if we have lost [our] pride," Dicdican bemoaned. 

He told the modest crowd gathered to join President Rodrigo Duterte in inaugurating the world class first of its kind resort airport terminal, that the project was conceived during the past administration. 

But he was quick to add that much of the challenges that could have derailed the project was done largely under the Duterte Administration. 

A terminal building occupying a 65,000 square meter property, MCIA T2 pushed MCIA and its project implementor GMCAC to collaborate with foreign expertise and local design ingenuity. 

The plan was to come up with an airport terminal that would embody the warmth of the Cebuanos and its furniture heritage, using the technologies that would make the magnificent facility an eco-friendly facility with minimum carbon footprint, he said. 

"We may not have great superstructures characteristic of world class airports but we will serve them with our warmth and our heart," he assured. 

He then called on MCIA personnel present during the program to stand with him to symbolically back the company in declaring their passenger commitment of dependability, collaboration, empathy and trustworthiness. 

Earlier, MCIA acknowledged their project partners with a red carpet entry of representatives bringing with them pieces of a puzzle which, one by one, was assembled on a board to complete the MCIA logo. (rahc/PIA7/Bohol) 

Festive dancing welcome the guests and dignitaries attending the inauguration of the now Terminal 2 of the Mactan cebu International Airport June 7. MCIA wants the terminal to become the world’s friendliest airport. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol) 

A photographer’s arm frames MCIA general manager and lawyer Steve Dicdican with DOTr Secretary Arthur Tugade, President Rodrigo Duterte and Executive secretary Salvadeor Medialdia, during the inauguration of the new Terminal 2 of the resort airport Mactan Cebu International Airport June 7 (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)