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The Ninoy Aquino International Airport is the only international Airport in Manila.
theis travesered gatway to Manila(Filipino: Paliparang Pandaigdig ng Ninoy Aquino)
or NAIA (IATA: MNL, ICAO: RPLL) is the international airport that serves Manila,
in the Philippines, and its surrounding metropolitan area.
The Manila Ninoy Aquino International Airport is located along the border between
Pasay City and Parañaque City in Metro Manila. It is about 7 kilometers
south of the country's capital Manila, and southwest of Makati City's Central
Business District.
The old Manila International Airport terminal buildingThe original airport
that served Manila, the Manila International Air Terminal, was opened in July
1937 on Nielson Field, located in what is now the central business district
of Makati. In 1948, the airport was moved to its current site adjacent to the
Villamor Airbase, which was then called Nichols Field. The original structure
was built on what is now the site of the NAIA-2. In 1981, a new structure was
built after a fire damaged the old terminal building, and this new structure
is what is now NAIA-1. The new terminal was capable of handling more passengers
than the old terminal. Previously named Manila International Airport, it was
later renamed to its present name on August 17, 1987, by virtue of Republic
Act No. 6639, with the intention of honoring Benigno Aquino Jr., whose nickname
was Ninoy. Ninoy was the husband of former president Corazon Aquino, and the
opposition senator who was assassinated at the airport shortly after he arrived
in the country following his political exile in Massachusetts, United States.
Plans for a new terminal were conceived in 1989, when the Department of Transportation
and Communications commissioned Aéroports de Paris to do a study to expand
the Ninoy Aquino International Airport's capacity. The recommendation was to
build two new terminals, and so NAIA-2 and NAIA-3 were built in the succeeding
years.
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