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Why heavy rain is grounding more flights than usual right now: https://t.co/3vT5Mqezr2

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🌧️ Rain at NAIA since morning, visibility down to 2 km by 5 PM. Expect delays, with some of the airport's navigation equipment out of service. ✈️

Flight status: https://t.co/VjhSOkVXWA

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🌧️ NAIA Update: the weather hasn't cleared yet. Pack your patience if you have a flight today. Expect a domino effect of delays. Lots of planes are in holding patterns, waiting for weather to clear.

Check your flight status at https://t.co/VjhSOkVXWA.

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The arrival backlog over NAIA is starting to clear. If you're waiting on a delayed departure, you might be next in line.
Check any flight's status: https://t.co/VjhSOkVXWA

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The e-gates read your passport and your face, and that is the whole interaction. Nobody stamps anything. If you kept your passport for the stamps, that collection stopped growing the day you started using them.

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If your flight into NAIA went in circles tonight, this is why. Storm cells over the airport, visibility down to 1.5 kilometers, and 22 arrivals holding in two hours.
Check any flight's status: https://t.co/VjhSOkVXWA

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Storm cells are sitting southeast and west of NAIA. 13 arrivals have circled in holding in the last hour and four went around on approach. Check your flight before you leave for the airport.

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Terminal 4 shut for the pandemic in March 2020 and reopened on 28 March 2022. It closed again for renovation on 6 November 2024. The works never happened, and demolition began in February 2025.

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People queue for the e-gates without the one thing the gates run on. Arriving or departing, no eTravel means no gate, and it costs nothing to file.

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Terminal 3 was supposed to open in 2002. A legal fight between the contractor and the government kept it shut, and it only became fully operational in 2014.

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Every checkpoint at NAIA has its own rush hour, and they are nowhere near each other. These are modelled from the day's flight schedule, not a live head count, so check yours on the day you fly.

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The 100ml rule has exceptions, and plenty of people pack around it for nothing. Keep these easy to pull out, because security may want to inspect them separately.

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It serves Metro Manila, but no single city gets to claim it. NAIA straddles Pasay and Parañaque.

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The e-gates treat arrivals and departures differently, and your passport decides which one you get. Both directions need eTravel done first.

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Checked baggage on a weekend trip is self-sabotage. The carousel wait can outlast your flight from Boracay.

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Fly out of any Mindanao or Palawan airport to Brunei, Indonesia or Malaysia and the ₱1,620 travel tax is waived. You don't need to live there, and changing planes at NAIA is fine. Who qualifies and how to claim it: https://t.co/YnGSQ09AQA

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You do not need a business class ticket to sit in a lounge. Plenty of Philippine credit cards get you in, and now you can check yours. Where your card works: https://t.co/aLWJWxWQA2

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eTravel is free, and you can file it within 72 hours of your flight. Sites that charge for it are scams, so use only the official site or the eGovPH app. The step-by-step: https://t.co/EvCLyPamvL

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A 150mL perfume, half full. Does it fly in your carry-on? The answer is in the comments.

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NAIA sits on Nichols Field, a former US airbase. Before that, Manila flew from Nielson Field in Makati. Its two runways are now Ayala Avenue and Paseo de Roxas.