The news of NAIA being taken over by San Miguel Corporation initially drew many criticisms. I won’t talk about these here but somewhat many things have changed aside from the airline assignments among the three remaining terminals. I said three because Terminal 4, what used to be the Manila Domestic Terminal, was already demolished. Among the changes are the suddenly spacious parking areas at the terminals. Here are some photos we took en route to the multi level parking prior to a trip.

What used to be islands separating the Terminal 3 building from driveways and the open parking lot is no more. 

The area is suddenly very spacious allowing for more parking slots as well as a wide driveway for vehicles.

The buses also benefitted from the space as they can line up at the terminal stop without blocking other vehicles.

The section leading to the multi-level parking building is not as congested. Most intending to park there including those leaving there vehicles for a few days enter via the upper level driveway. Rideshare vehicles generally use the ground level entrance.

The graded open area that was just usually dirt or mud is now being paved. Perhaps this will provide additional parking spaces considering a significant part of the multi-level parking building has been committed to ride share and taxis.

This used to be the area that was burned along with so many cars last year. Gone are the abandoned vehicles and perhaps these will all be paved. But was it necessary to just pave everything rather than have something porous and less heat generator than pavement? It would have been better to go for a multi-level facility and at the same time do some landscaping to have more trees and plants in this area.

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