With the holidays coming up, travelers using the NAIA terminals should also note that there are new self check-in portals at the airport. I noticed in two recent travels (one via Terminal 2 and another via Terminal 3) that people taking Cebu Pacific and Philippine Airlines were not using these. Ceb Pac passengers in particular crowded over their portals near their check-in counters at T3. Walang pumapansin nitong mga bagong terminals that could save you time when you check-in. Here are photos of the ones at Terminal 2:

The areas where these were installed weren’t crowded.

You can use these for Cebu Pacific, Air Asia or Philippine Airlines.

You can get your boarding passes and luggage tags here.

NAIA admin has also installed these new automated turnstiles prior to the final security check and the boarding gates at Terminal 2.

You just need to scan your boarding pass for the barrier to open. I haven’t used any of the LRT/MRT lines lately but this is basically the technology we’d like to have for the station turnstiles.

Here are the self-check portals at T3. Of course, they would have even greater utility if more airlines are included for self check-in.

Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) terminals already have these new features for quite some time. It’s good that NAIA is finally catching up in modernizing its facilities. For the turnstiles, that tech should have been installed at train stations and a variant should allow for a variety of means for payment of fares.

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