RP offers site to Airbus

RP offers site to Airbus

MANILA: The Philippines is courting European aircraft maker
Airbus to set up a regional maintenance site for Asia at the
former Clark U.S. air force base near here, a Filipino official
said on Sunday.

Manila would provide incentives to Airbus Industrie if it
agreed to transfer some of its Singapore maintenance operations
to the Philippines, Clark International Airport Corp. president
Adelberto Yap said in a statement.

"Given that Airbus is launching a new wide-bodied, double-
decker aircraft in the next three years, it is looking at sites
where it could do some repair and maintenance work aside from
Singapore," Yap said. -- AFP