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Elijah Felice Rosales - The Philippine Star
August 29, 2026 | 12:00am
As of Aug. 15, NNIC has spent P6.8 billion to rehabilitate the country’s main gateway, covering completed and ongoing fixes and the replacement of aging equipment.
Philstar.com / AJ Bolando, File
MANILA, Philippines — The Ninoy Aquino International Airport has so far received over P6.8 billion in repairs since it was turned over two years ago to private operator New NAIA Infrastructure Corp.
As of Aug. 15, NNIC has spent P6.8 billion to rehabilitate the country’s main gateway, covering completed and ongoing fixes and the replacement of aging equipment.
The amount includes the installation of new passenger processing systems aimed at speeding up a traveler’s journey from the terminal entrance to the boarding gates.
Likewise, NNIC president and CEO Ramon Ang said the operator has remitted P78 billion to the government under its concession.
The remittance covers the P30 billion in upfront charge, P2 billion in annual fees and the 82.16-percent share in airport revenues.
Ang said the consortium has so far accomplished what it was tasked to do. It has spent on airport fixes on one hand, and provided the government with more revenues to fund national projects on the other.
“This is what the concession was designed to do – generate substantial and continuing revenues for the government that can help support public services and infrastructure, while bringing in private sector resources to improve the airport,” Ang said.
Since NNIC took over NAIA in September 2024, it has reconfigured curbside facilities to hasten arrival and departure movements across terminals.
NNIC has also deployed more than 2,500 baggage trolleys, set up around 11,820 passenger seats and added at least 20 inter-terminal buses to scale up airport experience.
NNIC has also installed 517 new biometric systems for check-in, security and boarding. It is bent on expediting airport processes, so it is putting up automated pre-security gates and self check-in kiosks across terminals.
The operator also funded the installation of 78 biometric immigration gates at Terminals 1 and 3 to support security checks of the Bureau of Immigration. The gates can process passengers in as fast as 20 seconds, which is especially helpful during peak hours. — Rudy Santos
