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The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA; Filipino: Pangasiwaan ng Paliparang Pandaigdig ng Maynila) is a government-owned and controlled corporation and agency under the Department of Transportation of the Philippines responsible for the management of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) formerly Manila International Airport.
Repeated efforts to rename the airport have not succeeded. In May 2018, then lawyer Larry Gadon led an online petition at change.org aiming to restore the original name of the airport, Manila International Airport (MIA). Gadon said the renaming of MIA to NAIA in 1987 was "well in advance of the 10-year prescription period for naming public ...
The Philippines, having ratified the Convention on International Civil Aviation on March 1, 1947 [2] and being one of the 188 Contracting States (as of June 2002) of the ICAO, is bound to comply with the international standards of safeguarding civil aviation against acts of unlawful interference, including global terrorism. Specifically stated ...
The Philippines has placed all its commercial airports on heightened alert after an anonymous warning that bombs could go off on planes headed out of Manila, including to several tourist hotspots ...
The security group was later renamed in 1986 to Philippine Air Force Security Command (PAFSECOM). [3] PNP-AVSEGROUP was formed following the passage of Department of the Interior and Local Government Act of 1990 (Republic Act 6975) to counter acts of terrorism that threaten civil aviation in the Philippines. [1]
A determined security guard risked plunging through a 50ft high glass ceiling to retrieve a tourist's dropped phone. The Indian holidaymaker was waiting to board a plane while leaning over a ...
The Ninoy Aquino International Airport bullet-planting scandal, locally known as tanim-bala ("bullet planting") or laglag-bala ("bullet dropping"), was a scandal in the Philippines that began in September 2015 and lasted until early 2016, in which airport security personnel at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Metro Manila were alleged to have planted bullets in the luggage of ...
The Philippines' largest airport, the four-terminal Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), is handled by the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA), a state-owned corporation also under the DOTr. [6] NAIA has been subject to overcrowding, with plans for rehabilitation being set back numerous times towards the end of the 2010s. [7]