For decades, fixing NAIA was almost a national punchline. Administration after administration touted rehabilitation plans, terminals broke down anyway, and passengers suffered everything from power outages and busted baggage systems to tanim-bala.
Now, serious money is finally being poured into its make-over.
By its first anniversary, New NAIA Infra Corp. (NNIC) had already spent around P3.5 billion on upgrading the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, part of a much larger five-year, P72-billion rehabilitation program.
Rappler recently went inside Terminal 3 with NNIC officials and former transportation secretary Jaime Bautista to see what billions of pesos — and nearly two years of private management — have actually changed.
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