Vigan city council to Lucio Tan: Open Vigan-Mla flight

06/10/2008 | 10:28 PM

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CANDON CITY, Ilocos Sur – The Vigan city council has asked businessman Lucio Tan to open a Philippine Air Lines flight at the seldom-used Vigan Airport.

Tan is an adopted son of Ilocos Sur since his Fortune Tobacco has its main factory in Vigan.

The request for Tan to open a Philippine Airlines flight in Vigan Airport was contained in a resolution that the city council passed recently.

Vice Mayor Franz Ranches said that PAL representatives already came to the airport in Mindoro to inspect the facilities and to see the possibility of using even a 50-seater plane for the Vigan-Manila flight.

Ranches said that the Vigan airport is as long as those in Bohol, Dipolog and Iloilo City so they saw nothing wrong in opening a PAL flight here.

The airport is usually used to land helicopters or the personal airplane of former Gov. Luis Chavit Singson. - GMANews.TV

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