NAIA ranked ‘4th worst airport in Asia’ by UK website

FOR BUSINESS TRAVELERS

The Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) was ranked “fourth worst airport in Asia” in a survey done by a website based in the United Kingdom. 

In businessfinancing.co.uk’s survey, NAIA only managed to get an average of 2.78 from business travelers who were asked to rate airports in Asia on a scale of 1 to 10. 

GMA News Online has reached out to the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Manila International Airport Authority for comment about the study but it has yet to reply as of posting time. 

In the survey, Kuwait International Airport was ranked the worst with a score of 1.69. This was followed by Kazakhstan’s Almaty International Airport and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz International Airport.

Meanwhile, Vietnam’s Noi Bai International Airport was named the best airport in Asia in the study, with an average rating of 6.80.  

This was followed by Singapore’s Changi Airport and Hong Kong International Airport.

The website said it compiled passenger reviews for major international airports from airlinequality.com.

”For each airport, we then calculated the average rating from reviewers that were defined as ‘business travelers’ under the  ‘type of traveller’ category. We then ranked airports globally, by continent and by country (USA, UK) based on this metric,” it said.

NAIA, meanwhile, is already in the process of rehabilitation after recently concluding its bidding process for its privatization project. 

The group led by diversified conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC) was able to bag the P170.6-billion project.

The winning group is made up of San Miguel Holdings Corp., RMM Asian Logistics Inc., RLW Aviation Development Inc., and Incheon International Airport Corp. —Jiselle Anne Casucian/VAL/VBL, GMA Integrated News