Let’s hope other projects don’t take this long.
“The Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 becomes fully operational tomorrow, August 1, with US air carrier Delta Airlines officially moving its operations to the 12 year-old terminal,” reports Anjo Perez in Manila Bulletin.
KLM, Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific, and Emirates will also move to NAIA 3 in August.
The report noted: “The NAIA Terminal 3 project began in 1997 with Japanese construction firm Takenaka Corporation building the multimillion dollar terminal. The NAIA 3 was supposed to be fully operational by 2002 but a legal battle between its owner, the Philippine International Airport Terminals Co. Inc., and the Philippine government ensued. After an international arbitration court ruled in favor of the Philippine government, the airport terminal finally opened for operations in 2008 but only on a partial basis.”
Then, in August 2013, the government reached an agreement with Takenaka Corp., to complete all the unfinished works in the terminal.
The report added that “with the US$40 million works completed by Takenaka, all 18 boarding gates are now operational, the automated baggage handling system is running, all seven baggage carousels are now in service, and all air conditioners are functioning.”
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