{"id":22468,"date":"2014-08-17T15:28:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T07:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=22468"},"modified":"2014-08-17T15:28:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T07:28:15","slug":"dot-optimistic-airport-woes-will-be-solved-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/17\/dot-optimistic-airport-woes-will-be-solved-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"DOT optimistic airport woes will be solved soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10581\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/NAIA_Terminal_3_2009_MC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10581\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/NAIA_Terminal_3_2009_MC.jpg\" alt=\"Ninoy Aquino International Airport. Wikipedia photo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/NAIA_Terminal_3_2009_MC.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/NAIA_Terminal_3_2009_MC-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/NAIA_Terminal_3_2009_MC-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ninoy Aquino International Airport. Wikipedia photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; With rehabilitation efforts at Ninoy Aquino International Airports (NAIA) terminals underway, the Department of Tourism (DOT) expressed optimism that it won\u2019t be long before passengers experience the last of their airport woes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am positive that (the country\u2019s) airport problems will be solved soon,\u201d DOT Secretary Ramon Jimenez Jr. said during Thursday\u2019s budget hearing on tourism.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary, however, admitted that there definitely was a need to improve the country\u2019s airports, especially after being rated by various travel sites and organizations as the world\u2019s \u201cworst airport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NAIA was ranked at first as the world\u2019s worst airport in 2011 and again in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Travel sites and organizations often pinpointed NAIA\u2019s being over-crowded, having limited seats and encountering delays, difficult transfers, dirty bathrooms among many other factors.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez also emphasized the importance of NAIA on tourism since the airport accounts for about 75 percent of the country\u2019s passenger arrivals.<\/p>\n<p>At present, rehabilitation of NAIA terminals 1 and 2 continue, however, major upgrades for the NAIA terminal 3 were completed last month, which helped pave the way for the transfer of five airlines from terminal 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; With rehabilitation efforts at Ninoy Aquino International Airports (NAIA) terminals underway, the Department of Tourism (DOT) expressed optimism &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-n-parrocha","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}