+ Follow FFC Tag
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[Title] => Local aviation industry in distress
[Summary] => An uncertain future hounds the country’s aviation sector. From the airlines to cargo forwarders to aviation workers, the implementation of the RP-US Air Transport Agreement (ATA) scheduled for October 2003 is causing alarm to aviation stakeholders.
Other sectors dependent on the industry like tour and travel agencies, resorts, hotels and inns, restaurants, entertainment centers and transportation are equally apprehensive.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-04 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 201078
[Title] => Tour, travel operators oppose ‘open skies’
[Summary] => The country’s travel and tour operators have rallied behind the campaign to reject open skies, stressing that the government has to protect the local aviation and tourism industry.
The operators, who belong to the Network of Independent Travel Agencies (NITAS), the largest travel organization with 13 chapters nationwide, held their 2nd general membership meeting at the Grand Boulevard Hotel in Malate, Manila, last Thursday.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-01 00:00:00
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[Title] => CHED urged to probe academics using schools to push ‘open skies’
[Summary] => The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) should look into the activities of some members of the academe who are key officials of an aviation lobby group to determine if they are using their position in schools to promote foreign interests in the country.
The call was made by the Save Our Skies (SOS) movement following admission by Freedom to Fly Coalition (FFC) president Mila Abad in the Senate that she and FFC officials receive financial support from the US-funded AGILE (Accelerating Growth, Investment and Liberalization with Equity) program.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-22 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 199529
[Title] => Solons urged to dig into open skies bills
[Summary] => The Save Our Skies (SOS) movement urged the Senate and the House of Representatives yesterday to thoroughly scrutinize bills calling for open skies or progressive liberalization following admission by the US-funded lobby group Freedom to Fly Coalition (FFC) that it drafted the open skies measure and assisted congressional committees.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-19 00:00:00
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[Title] => Lobby group admits getting funds from USAID-AGILE
[Summary] => The lobby group Freedom to Fly Coalition (FFC) admitted during a Senate hearing last Wednesday that its key officials get funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and that it has a member sitting in the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB).
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-16 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 198905
[Title] => Dismissal of government officials identified with AGILE-funded groups sought
[Summary] => The call of the Senate to eject all AGILE (Accelerating Growth, Investment and Liberalization with Equity) representatives from government offices should also apply to public officials identified with AGILE-funded lobby groups like the Freedom to Fly Coalition (FFC), according to an aviation industry group.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-14 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 197347
[Title] => Open skies lobby group has penetrated CAB, Senate committee told
[Summary] => An aviation industry organization said that the lobby group Freedom to Fly Coalition (FFC), which is being financed by foreign funds, has penetrated the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) and could have influenced the country’s aviation policies.
In his testimony before the Senate committees on public services and foreign relations, Robert Lim Joseph, Save Our Skies (SOS) Movement president, said the FFC, which has been pushing for open skies, was able to have its nominee appointed to the CAB board.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-02 00:00:00
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[Title] => BOI approves P10-M project to recycle PET bottles
[Summary] => The Board of Investments (BOI) has approved a P10-million investment by a new firm that is proposing to recycle polyethylene terephtalate (PET) bottles.
Forever Fiber Corp. (FFC), a pioneer operator, plans to manufacture and trade goods derived from plastic waste, specifically used PET bottles.
FFC is developing its own technology and is investing in a plant and equipment to recycle used PET bottles and convert them into chips/flakes that would then be processed into other usable products such as staple fiber.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-16 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go
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[Title] => NGO scores distorted facts on tourist arrivals
[Summary] => A non-governmental organization (NGO) has accused a lobby group for foreign airlines of distorting the facts and misleading the people in connection with the number of tourist arrivals to the country from Singapore and Korea.
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-25 00:00:00
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