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