IN BATTLE OF THE AIRPORTS CPA crushes Guam team
It was a sports event completely different from all other local and international competitions in a way that winning did not play so much an importance to each of the contesting team’s overall success.
While the Commonwealth Ports Authority bagged most of the titles in all 10 sports events, the team from Guam International Airport Authority is not going home without a significant accomplishment.
Both CPA and GIAA officials agree that it is not so much of winning that makes the annual Airportlympics, which is already on its ninth year, an event to look forward to but the camaraderie and cooperation established between employees of the two equally-important airport facilities in Micronesia.
CPA Executive Director Carlos H. Salas said the mini-olympics was established in the early 1990s not to prove which of the two airport authorities is better but to foster closer relationship between its officials and employees.
“We work hand in hand with the Guam International Airport Authority. This event gives us the opportunity to re-establish our ties, as well as share technical expertise on how to more efficiently manage our air transport facilities,” Mr. Salas said.
CPA and GIAA had to skip the 1998 Airportlympics following the adverse damage caused by Supertyphoon Paka to Guam’s air transport facility and the financial difficulties faced by the CPA then.
Over 50 employees of the Guam International Airport Authority flew in to Saipan Friday for the two-day mini-olympics.
