More than 50 domestic flights of the Cebu Pacific and Asian Spirit airlines were delayed Tuesday as a circuit breaker at the Philippines' Manila Domestic Airport caused a power failure, media reports said.
Thirty-three flights of Cebu Pacific Airline and 18 flights of Asian Spirit were delayed, Philippine TV network GMA News reported, citing officials from the media affairs division of the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA).
On the average, at least 51 flights will be delayed by around an hour.
Tirso Serrano, MIAA assistant general manager, said that while an investigation is still ongoing to determine the cause of the power failure, he suspected the high temperature and passenger volume as the probable "culprits."
Serrano said that during the past Holy Week, the domestic airport accommodated some 13,000 passengers daily, almost 35 percent higher during the same period last year.
A separate report quoted an airport engineer as saying that their circuit breaker usually breaks down whenever the capacity load breaches 200 amperes.
It also said that all computers, air-conditioning units, and the check-in counter at the said domestic airport were affected by the incident.
The airport's carousel and conveyor for the arrival and departure sections of the airport were also rendered non-operational.
Source:Xinhua
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