Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) suffered from being tagged as one of the worst airports in the world for several years because of being ‘ dirty, crowded, noisy and extremely hot airport’ the ‘laglag bala scheme’ which victimized passengers also worsen the image of the Philippine airport.
But now,the once infamous NAIA is finally out of the worst airports list, according to the latest survey results of travel website ‘sleepinginairports’
The inclusion of NAIA in the said list this year was attributed to the issue of ‘laglag-bala’ or airport personnel’s allegedly victimized passengers by putting bullets in their luggage so they can forcefully ask their victims for money.
Thirty cases of the scheme were recorded in 2015, according to Philippine National Police Aviation Security Group.
The scheme was mysteriously gone after Rodrigo Duterte became the President and threaten the people involved in laglag bala scheme that he’s going to shove bullets in their mouth if they caught victimizing passengers again.
“Work, work, work lang. While it is good that we are not listed among the worst, let us work even harder to be included amongst the best,” Secretary Tugade said. “We should be careful that we do not backslide. The show must go on — and better!,” he added
According to Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) General Manager ED Monreal, their ‘bigger challenge is to maintain or even surpass’ their current achievements.
From 2011 to 2013, NAIA was hailed as the “world’s worst airport, while in 2014, it landed in 4th place.
In 2015, despite of being not included in the top 10 worst airport, it was named as the 8th worst airport in Asia.
Meanwhile, four airports from the Philippines was again joined the list of the top 25 best airports in Asia for this year 2017.
They are Iloilo International Airport (12), Mactan-Cebu International Airport (13), Davao International Airport(17) and Clark International Airport(22).
Last year, we wrote an article about the netizens who praised the big changes of Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
