Manila Airport - SMC-led Group Wins Rights to Operate/Upgrade NAIA

A group led by the Philippine-based conglomerate San Miguel Corporation has wom the rights to operate and make much needed upgrades to the Manila Airport.
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[@titob.yotokojr.9337]

Close that airport and transfer everything to the new Manila International Airport in Bulacan and the Sangley International Airport in Cavite.
The present airport in Manila will forever be tiny and cramped with its weird T-shape property for an airport. It will never be a world class primary airport befitting an emerging world economy like the Philippines.

[@MultiJames95]

That is already wrong. Here is a better one: why not turn it to an all-domestic airport which caters to regional flights, maintenance, general aviation, cargo, and even the state/diplomatic flights. You might want to look into Osaka-Itami, Taipei-Songshan, Bangkok Don Muang, Seoul-Gimpo, Tokyo Haneda, etc., all who transformed their old airports to such traffic. That way, more people will have jobs.

[@FlightsInAsia]

The current MNL is a very strategic location and what you write is definitely something worth considering. MNL is among those cities that needs more than one airport.

[@MultiJames95]

@@FlightsInAsia Not to mention that it is the most lucrative one for business travelers, given that Nichols is close to the CBDs of Makati, Pasig (Ortigas), Makati, and Taguig. No business professional will like to subject him/herself in traveling from Bulacan to Makati when time is valuable and every second is money wasted. Rather, they'd just take a flight to Nichols and have a taxi take you from there to Makati in just 30 minutes. Business travelers prioritize time.
Also, for diplomatic flights, Nichols is good for it because the world leaders stay in hotels like Sofitel, Manila Hotel, etc, and they are conveniently near Malacanang. An ambassador for example is assigned to PH and their embassies are in the metro region, with their residences in the diplomatic enclave of Forbes Park. The airport closest to those locations is obviously Nichols. In the same manner as business travelers, world leaders and diplomats prioritize time too.
And to add up, Nichols is good for military traffic, owing it is home to Villamor and PAF cannot give it up easily. Maintenance flight can do for it too because LTP has hangars there, and so does CebPac. In Itami, ANA maintains a maintenance base there too.