CLARK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Corp. (CIAC), the legal owner and manager of the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) at Clark Freeport recently conducted a survey among pilots and players in the aviation industry. And the prevailing sentiment continued to be in favor of the original name--Clark International Airport--in how they refer to DMIA. In fact, ever since the time of the Clark Air Base of the United States Air Force, the airport continues to be referred to in its three-letter code: CRK.
On 27 July 1994, then president Fidel V. Ramos issued Executive Order No. 192, creating the CIAC to manage the Clark Aviation Complex (CAC), and naming the international airport as CIA. The Senate ordered in 1991 the closure of the airbase.
The switch to DMIA happened in 2003 when local politicians made a resolution to rename the international airport to bear the name of the father of then president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Effective February 2012, the airport will revert to its original name, Clark International Airpor. [Source]
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