{"id":28197,"date":"2014-10-08T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T05:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=28197"},"modified":"2014-10-08T19:55:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T11:55:29","slug":"naia-still-among-the-worlds-worst-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/08\/naia-still-among-the-worlds-worst-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"NAIA still among the world\u2019s worst airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21156\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/NAIA-Terminal-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21156\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/NAIA-Terminal-3-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"NAIA Terminal 3 (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/NAIA-Terminal-3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/NAIA-Terminal-3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NAIA Terminal 3 (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Despite ongoing renovations, the Ninoy Aquino International Airport was again among the list of the world\u2019s top 10 worst airports.<\/p>\n<p>ANC cited the US website Cheat Sheet\u2019s ranking\u00a0 in a report noting on the airport\u2019s poor facilities, long queues and \u201cimpolite\u201d staff and officials.<\/p>\n<p>Cheat Sheet indicated that the airport is unable to conveniently accommodate more than 32 million people who avails of its facilities yearly.<\/p>\n<p>Also included in the list are Charles De Gaulle in Paris, Los Angeles International Airport, Italy\u2019s Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport, New York\u2019s LaGuardia Airport, Zurich International in Switzerland, Chad\u2019s N\u2019Djamena International Airport, Russia\u2019s Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Arkansas, and India\u2019s Calcutta Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The US website noted that the failure is due to the fact that the airport was designed to hold only six million passengers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Manila-based airport struggles with the 32 million passengers who use its facility each year. That shouldn\u2019t come as a shock, though, considering it only has the capacity for six million passengers, according to CNBC,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the country being known for the hospitality of its people, travelers criticized the airport staff for being discourteous.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time that the country\u2019s largest airport was cited as the worst airport in the world.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Sleeping in Airports, included NAIA on its list of the world\u2019s worst airports. The travel website made the ranking by asking travelers questions about comfort, conveniences, cleanliness and customer service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Despite ongoing renovations, the Ninoy Aquino International Airport was again among the list of the world\u2019s top 10 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[2984],"class_list":["post-28197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-naia","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28197","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=28197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}