flights or two flights using one wide-body and one narrow-body aircraft. During the incumbency of former Mayor Evelyn Uy, the City Government built a bridge and an access road to Barangay Barra cutting travel time to and from the City's Business District. Future development In 2018, the Department of Transportation (DOTr), through Secretary Arthur Tugade, planned to upgrade Dipolog Airport, and other local Philippine airports to handle evening flights. Airlines and destinations Structure Terminal The airport has one terminal and a apron. The apron is capable of supporting two Airbus A320s and three large general aviation planes simultaneously. There are plans to expand the apron to accommodate bigger aircraft. The terminal building, which originally had a capacity of 170 passengers, now has a seating capacity of 300 passengers due to new flights offered by Cebu Pacific. The terminal houses a metal detector and an X-ray machine for fast security check-in of passengers and their baggage. Other structures The airport has a modern control tower, a Category V fire station with four firetrucks and a new parking area complex near the Miss Universe Garden. The new parking area would have a capacity of 100 vehicles when completed by the end of the year. The old parking area, which had a capacity of ninety vehicles, was partially converted into an security buffer zone, to address probable terrorist threats. Forty slots of the old parking area were made part of the new parking area. The city government is expanding again the parking area to accommodate the additional passenger traffic toward the vicinity of the Miss Universe Garden. There is a mini-garden at the runway side of the terminal that contains a grotto. The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) had put up the Heroes' Lounge for use of members and retirees of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and Philippine National Police, Armed Forces of the Philippines Medal of Valor and Philippine National Police Medal of Valor awardees, together with their families. Dipolog Airport is one of the 24 airports in the Philippines to have a lounge dedicated to uniformed personnel and family members. Master plan Third Airport Development Project The Dipolog Airport upgrading project was part of the 1997 Third Airport Development Project, a six-airport package that was supposed to be funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the European Investment Bank (EIB), and the Philippine government with its counterpart fund.