PASAY CITY, 9 April 2023 – The Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) welcomed more than twice as many passengers in the first quarter of this year compared to the figures for the same period in 2022.
The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA), which manages NAIA, recorded a total of 10,855,332 passengers in the first three months of 2023, a 158% increase over the 4,200,575 passengers that traveled through the country's primary gateway in the first three months of 2022.
This is only 6% lower than the pre-coronavirus total of 11,587,919 travelers during the same period in 2019.
In addition, flight movements during the first quarter of 2023 totaled 67,781, a 77% increase over the first quarter flight movement of 38,269 in...