Ninoy Aquino International Airport

The Ninoy Aquino International Airport or NAIA {{Airport codes|MNL|RPLL}} is the international airport that serves Manila, in the Philippines, and its surrounding metropolitan area. It is the main international gateway of the country. Its main alternate airports are both Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in Angeles City and Mactan-Cebu International Airport in Cebu City.

Structure

Runways

NAIA has a primary runway (3,354 m) running at 061°/241° (designated as Runway 06/24) and a secondary runway (2,425 m) running at 136°/316° (designated as Runway 13/31).

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Terminals

NAIA has two operational international terminals, with a third one scheduled for completion by 2005, and a separate domestic terminal.

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The first terminal, NAIA-1, is the original terminal and was constructed in 1981. The 67,000 square meter terminal was designed by Filipino architect Leandro V. Locsin and has a design capacity of 4.5 million passengers per year. It currently serves all non-Philippine Airlines international flights. The terminal reached capacity in 1991 and has been over capacity ever since.

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1981 - Leandro V. Locsin - 1991

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The second terminal, NAIA-2, was finished in 1998 and is named the Centennial Terminal since 1998 was the centennial year of the declaration of Philippine independence. The 75,000 square meter terminal was originally designed by Aéroports de Paris to be a domestic terminal, but the design was later modified to accommodate international flights. It has a capacity of 2.5 million passengers per year in its international wing and 5 million in its domestic wing, which later will expand to nine million passengers yearly. Terminal 2 is the home of Philippine Airlines and is used for both its domestic and international flights since it has the most number of flights out of the NAIA terminals.

Related Topics:
1998 - Aéroports de Paris - Philippine Airlines

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The third, much larger terminal, NAIA-3, was approved for construction in 1997 and is nearly complete. The modern US$640 million, 189,000 square meter facility was designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) to have a capacity of 13 million passengers per year. However, a legal dispute between the government of the Philippines and the project's main contractor, PIATCO, over alleged anomalies in the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) contract, is holding completion and opening of the terminal. On December 2004, the Philippine Government took over the management of the facility through an order of the Pasay City Regional Trial Court (RTC). NAIA-3 is set to open its gates to the world in December 2005 and will take over all operations of NAIA-1.

Related Topics:
1997 - Skidmore, Owings and Merrill - Build-Operate-Transfer

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The Domestic Terminal on the old Airport Road was built in 1948 and handles all domestic air traffic, excluding Philippine Airlines. Currently, the terminal is composed of two single-story buildings and serves the domestic flights of other local carriers, which are Cebu Pacific, Air Philippines, Asian Spirit, South East Asian Airlines (Seair), and Interisland Airlines.

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1948 - Cebu Pacific - Air Philippines - Asian Spirit - South East Asian Airlines (Seair) - Interisland Airlines

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Other structures

The airport also serves as a gateway facility of the logistics company DHL, and hosts the aircraft repair and maintenance facilities of German firm Lufthansa Technik AG, a division of Lufthansa.

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DHL - Lufthansa Technik AG - Lufthansa

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