CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga, Philippines — An official of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) has been designated president and chief executive officer of the Clark International Airport Corp. (CIAC).
Joshua Bingcang, senior vice president of the BCDA, recently took his oath of office before Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista. Bingcang replaced CIAC officer-in-charge Darwin Cunanan.
The CIAC, a subsidiary of the BCDA, is mandated to ensure the development of the Clark civil aviation complex, while the DOTr exercises policy supervision and operational control over the CIAC.
Under the present administration, the DOTr tasked the CIAC to exercise regulatory supervision and oversight on activities occurring within the aviation complex including the Clark International Airport.
Bingcang was officer-in-charge of the Clark aviation firm from 2019 to 2020 or months after the privatization of the Clark International Airport at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As senior vice president of BCDA, Bingcang headed the Clark airport expansion project.