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Zackback
Joined: 05 Nov 2010
Location: Kyungbuk
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 Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 4:15 pm Post subject: NAIA (Philippines): the worst in Asia....no surprise |
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Anyone ever been through there man the place is awful. I can't believe with all the tourists coming there they are greeted with this slime pit.
http://www.philstar.com/nation/article.aspx?publicationSubCategoryId=65&articleId=860255
NAIA-1 Asia's worst airport for 2012
By Rudy Santos The Philippine Star Updated October 17, 2012 12:00 AM
MANILA, Philippines - A travel website has named Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 (NAIA-1) as the worst airport in Asia for this year.
�With its collapsing ceilings, overcrowding, rampant bribery, and taxi drivers scamming travelers on fares, its easy to understand why �disappointed� and �unbelievable� are just a few of the words travelers use to describe Manila�s Terminal 1,� the website Sleeping in Airports said when it released the results of its 16th annual survey on the best and worst airports for sleeping in or long transits.
Last year, the same website named NAIA-1 as the world�s worst airport. For this year, however, the website, in breaking down the list by region, stated that �as much as we would like to declare a �worst airport in the world� there were just too many to choose from.�
The website acknowledged that while the government was rehabilitating NAIA-1, starting last January, �judging by the thousands of people who sent us their feedback and voted in the polls� these improvements can�t be finished fast enough.�
Sleeping in Airports said travelers �continue to complain about the long and numerous queues that begin outside the terminal. Once inside, there will be no time for naps and certainly no place for quiet rest and enjoyment as you�ll be busy going through various queues for the next few hours as you proceed to your gate.�
The website said while NAIA-1 does have a VIP lounge and a day room for transiting passengers, the terminal �is not for sleeping.� It recommended that the overnight sleeper awaiting early morning flights should go to NAIA Terminals 2 and 3, �where there is armrest-free seating (landside).� NAIA-3, it noted, �is very clean and modern, but it is not operating to full capacity.�
The website advised travelers that if they are transiting to another terminal, �the shuttle bus departs when there are enough people on the bus to make the journey worthwhile.� For travelers in a hurry, Sleeping in Airports warned those taking taxis to look out for meters rigged with �a gadget called a batingting that speeds up the meter and increases your fare.� The website said NAIA-1 authorities cracked down on the practice in March.
The website stated that what is �more disconcerting� is the number of reports it received from travelers about �officers asking for cash payments to expedite normal procedures. Shame!�
Sleeping in Airports also listed down other complaints listed by travelers, such as poor transit facilities, long lines, bribery, crowding, insufficient seating, delays receiving bags on conveyor belts, poor quality restaurants and taxi scams. It recommended that travelers use NAIA Terminals 2 and 3 �when possible.�
According to an ABS-CBN report, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said the government continues to undertake renovation and engineering works to improve the facilities at NAIA-1.
�We are always cognizant of the concerns of travelers and certainly we�ll take this to (heart),� he said.
The website also included among Asia�s worst airports, by rank: Mumbai, India; Islamabad, Pakistan; Singapore�s low cost carrier terminal; Kolkata, India; Jakarta, Indonesia; Hanoi, Vietnam; Chennai in Madras, India; Kuala Lumpur low cost carrier terminal in Malaysia; and Bali, Indonesia.
Sleeping in Airports named Changi airport in Singapore as the best airport in Asia for 2012, followed by Seoul Incheon, South Korea; Hong Kong; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Bangkok, Thailand; New Delhi, India; Narita in Tokyo, Japan; Taoyuan in Taipei, Taiwan; Kansai in Osaka, Japan; and Hyderabad, southern India. |
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lemak
Joined: 02 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:24 am Post subject: |
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Is it referring to international airports?
NAIA is a dump to be sure, but would be a massive stretch to call it the worst in Asia.
There's far worse, even in the Philippines.
When I was there Jaffna in Sri Lanka was basically just a shipping crate for check in formalities and then passengers would stand around outside in the tropical sun for a couple of hours waiting for a flight that may or may not arrive.
Zia International Airport in Dhaka is puke of the highest order. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 6:54 am Post subject: |
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| Incheon airport is fantastic. I am partial to Narita as well. HK is very good too. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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| lemak wrote: |
Is it referring to international airports?
NAIA is a dump to be sure, but would be a massive stretch to call it the worst in Asia.
There's far worse, even in the Philippines.
When I was there Jaffna in Sri Lanka was basically just a shipping crate for check in formalities and then passengers would stand around outside in the tropical sun for a couple of hours waiting for a flight that may or may not arrive.
Zia International Airport in Dhaka is puke of the highest order. |
Yeah, Zia is definitely worse than NAIA. I'd say that's the worst one I've been to in Asia. |
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alwaysbeclosing100
Joined: 07 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:08 pm Post subject: re |
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I would vote for Medan on Sumatra. The airport there is a total hole.
Jaffna will likely improve as the tourists return. It was only a year ago you could travel to that city at all. Before that it took a military flight and special permission which was extremely rare. Jaffna was a war zone for the last 30 years. |
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lemak
Joined: 02 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 7:22 pm Post subject: Re: re |
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| alwaysbeclosing100 wrote: |
| I would vote for Medan on Sumatra. The airport there is a total hole. |
Medan airport IS crap, but still don't think it's the worst in Asia. It has a terrible safety record and is more or less downtown, so they were in the process of moving it and building newer facilities outside the city. I think the new one should open this year or next. You know when the Indonesian aviation industry decides something is dangerous that it *really* must be horrid haha. Like the Philippines Indonesia is riddled with shite airports also. Pontianak, Ngurah Rai, Balikpapan...even the older terminals in Jakarta. Some of the worst airport toilets I've ever seen.
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| Jaffna will likely improve as the tourists return. It was only a year ago you could travel to that city at all. Before that it took a military flight and special permission which was extremely rare. Jaffna was a war zone for the last 30 years. |
Jaffna wasn't closed continuously during those 30 years though. Depended on the progress of various peace talks that were on at the time. I, for example went there in 2003. Traveled up there by land which was awful as the LTTE controlled various sections of the Elephant Pass at that time, meaning every time you crossed between the government held areas and the Tamil zones you'd have to more or less undergo the regular border crossing procedure, makeshift immigration, crazy security checks...the army wanted to make sure you weren't smuggling in weapons, flashlights, binoculars etc for the Tigers.
I flew back. The military flights were run by a charter company called Lion Air (different to the Indonesian airline of the same name). The planes would fly from an army base up in Jaffna and then land down on some Sri Lankan airbase down in Colombo.
The way it worked was they would find out how many soldiers or how much equipment was going to be on the flight the next day and then sell the remaining tickets to the public at 50 bucks a seat. Was kind of risky 'cause the Tamil Tigers would sometimes sit just off the beach at the end of the runway and fire RPGs at the departing planes.
Anyhow for what it's worth it was a great destination with a massive amount of tourist potential. The beaches up north make the ones down south look like crap, which says something because the southern beaches are stunning. And near deserted. Not sure on the progress of the place infrastructure-wise right now though. In those days there was nothing, generator only electricity, a couple of pricey restaurants catering toward the UN and HALO trust de-mining teams. A couple of very basic hotels with natural air-con created by 50 cal. machine gun bullets. Every single building in town had holes in it.
Very nice people and place though.
(Sorry about the long off topic ramble by the way.) |
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lemak
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 5:24 am Post subject: |
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 Keep the lovely information about the Indonesian airports coming. Anybody who has taken AirAsia to the Old Kuala Lumpur Airport is in for another treat. I can see why Malaysia built another one. |
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Zackback
Joined: 05 Nov 2010
Location: Kyungbuk
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| Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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Woman hit by kiosk ceiling at NAIA
MANILA, Philippines - A 60-year-old woman was hurt when a kiosk ceiling collapsed and hit her on the head while she was at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 2 (NAIA-2) departure area yesterday morning.
Dr. Ma. Angelica Corpuz, the physician on duty, said Nieves Jacinto Favis was rushed to the Philippine Airlines clinic for first aid treatment before she was brought to the St. Luke�s Medical Center in Taguig City.
NAIA-2 manager Cecilio Bobilia said Favis went to a bakeshop kiosk while she was waiting for her 10 a.m. flight to Hong Kong. A bakeshop worker was cleaning the kiosk�s aluminum ceiling when it collapsed and fell on Favis, who suffered a laceration nearly one and a half inches long on her head.
Corpuz said Favis is in stable condition and her flight was rebooked.
http://www.philstar.com/metro/2012/12/16/886453/woman-hit-kiosk-ceiling-naia |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 7:21 am Post subject: |
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| lemak wrote: |
When I was there Jaffna in Sri Lanka was basically just a shipping crate for check in formalities and then passengers would stand around outside in the tropical sun for a couple of hours waiting for a flight that may or may not arrive.
Zia International Airport in Dhaka is puke of the highest order. |
Does it get any better than this? |
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Zackback
Joined: 05 Nov 2010
Location: Kyungbuk
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| Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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And exactly one year later...........
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/naia-1-still-world-s-worst-airport-094912518.html
Here comes yet another sad news.
The Ninoy Aquino International Airport has again topped the list of notorious airports put out by travel-oriented website SleepingInAirports Tuesday.
NAIA, the “worst airport in the world,” is the country's biggest and busiest airport.
But the list identified only NAIA Terminal 1, which was completed in 1981 with a capacity of some 4.5 million passengers annually.
It made no mention of other terminals servicing the NAIA. Three new terminals have been built in recent years though only two are now in operation.
NAIA Terminal 1 was followed by the following airports which rounded out the top 10 in the “worst airports” list:
-Bergamo (Italy)
-Calcutta (India)
-Islamabad (Pakistan)
-Paris Beauvais (France)
-Chennai (India)
-Frankfurt Hahn (Germany)
-Mumbai (India)
-Rome Fiumicino (Italy)
-Los Angeles (U.S.)
“When selecting an airport to declare as the "worst," travelers were asked to consider the four C’s: comfort, conveniences, cleanliness and customer service,” the website said.
Among the factors that may contribute to the dubious distinction are crowded airports; long delays or layovers; dirty bathrooms; lack of food; as well as unfriendly staff.
SleepingInAirports quoted one of its reviewers as saying that NAIA has been neglected despite being the gateway to the country for many tourists.
“Most other countries will at least try to do their best to make their main international airport look at least a bit presentable,” user wandringcat123 said in a review.
“[A]t this airport everything seems to have been done to make the experience as horrible as possible,” the user added.
A P1-billion renovation plan has been approved for the airport. The project will include structural and aesthetic works as well as the construction of an exit taxiway.
The government has vowed to finish the project before the end of President Benigno Aquino III’s term in 2016, as part of efforts to boost tourism.
Singapore’s Changi Airport, on the other hand, was named the best airport the world this year, followed by Seoul Incheon (Korea). and Hong Kong.
Rounding out the top 10 best airports are Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Bangkok (Thailand), Tokyo Narita (Japan), Taipei Taoyuan (Taiwan), New Delhi and Hyderabad (India). |
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wishfullthinkng
Joined: 05 Mar 2010
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frankfurt shouldn't be on that list. i hate lax but i wouldn't put it on the list either.
truly bad international airports are places like lcc terminal in malaysia. simply awful. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| wishfullthinkng wrote: |
frankfurt shouldn't be on that list. i hate lax but i wouldn't put it on the list either.
truly bad international airports are places like lcc terminal in malaysia. simply awful. |
Ha, yeah, I had my first LCC terminal experience this month. That place truly blows, especially compared to KLIA terminal one. |
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b-class rambler
Joined: 25 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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| wishfullthinkng wrote: |
| frankfurt shouldn't be on that list. |
But are you thinking of the same airport? I bet you're not.
Frankfurt Hahn is not the huge international airport on the outskirts of the city you'd expect it to be on the outskirts of.
Hahn is an ex-military airfield that Ryanair flies to and has the cheek to tell people they're flying to Frankfurt. They might as well tell them they're flying to Luxembourg because that's as close as Frankfurt is - some 120km away.
Never used it, so can't comment on how bad it is or isn't, but I expect the fact that it's absolutely in the middle of nowhere has a lot to do with the negative feedback received. |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| wishfullthinkng wrote: |
frankfurt shouldn't be on that list. i hate lax but i wouldn't put it on the list either.
truly bad international airports are places like lcc terminal in malaysia. simply awful. |
LAX is a mundane nothing special airport, but it functions very well and generally is comfortable. The only problem is the immigration lines when you come back to the USA. They also shut the heat off at night in the winter. If you're staying overnight, make sure you have a suitcase stocked with shirts and stuff you can put over what you're wearing.
The Jakarta airport is the ******** of the world and the old Kuala Lumpur airport that only AirAsia uses is not so great by any means. |
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