<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Mactan&ndash;Cebu International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The runway was built by the United States Air Force in 1956 as an emergency airport for Strategic Air Command bombers and it was known as the Mactan Air Base. It remained a spartan outpost until the Vietnam War in the 1960s when it became a base for a C-130 unit of the U.S. Air Force.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Commercial operations started on April 27, 1966 for domestic flights. It replaced the now closed Lahug Airport (now the site of Cebu IT Park) which could no longer be expanded due to safety and physical problems. International charter flights later commenced in 1978.</p>
<p class="blog-para">On July 31, 1990, Republic Act No. 6958 was approved, which creates and establishes the Mactan&ndash;Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA). The law transferred the existing assets and operations of Mactan&ndash;Cebu International Airport and Lahug Airport to the newly-created MCIAA.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Plans for a new terminal were laid as early as 2005, but the expansion of the existing terminal was instead pursued. By 2009, the airport handled 4.8 million passengers, way beyond the capacity of 4.5 million. By 2017, the airport handled more than ten million passengers.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The expansion of the airport was included on the list of big-ticket public-private partnership (PPP) projects as part of the PPP infrastructure program that was launched in 2010. Bidding was opened in 2012. On April 23, 2014, the Department of Transportation and Communications awarded the operations and maintenance of MCIA to a consortium of the Philippine Megawide Construction Corporation and Bangalore-based GMR Infrastructure. The consortium won with a bid of ₱17.5 billion. MCIAA handed over the operations and maintenance of the airport to the private consortium on November 1, 2014.</p>
<p class="blog-para">On June 29, 2015, President Benigno Aquino III led the ground-breaking rites at the site of the old Philippine Air Force base in Lapu-Lapu City which had been demolished to give way for the Terminal 2 construction. Construction of Terminal 2 began on January 22, 2016. On June 7, 2018, Terminal 2 was inaugurated by President Rodrigo Duterte, with the terminal being operational on July 1.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">TRANSPORTATION Mactan&ndash;Cebu International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">At Mactan-Cebu Airport you can use the following transportation options to downtown Cebu:</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Bus: </strong>Cebu Airport provides a couple of bus transportation routes to and from the city centre.</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Taxi:</strong> It is possible to transfer within an hour to the city centre by taxi from both terminals.</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Car rental:</strong> Find great deals on our car rental search engine or rent a car at Cebu Airport.</p>
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