NAIA Opens Terminal 4

Expects To Handle 12,000 Passengers

29 March 2022

Ninoy Aquino International Airport's Terminal 4 has resumed operations for domestic flights after nearly two years of closure, according to airport operator Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA).

Terminal 4 caters to Cebu Pacific's turboprop fleet CebGo, AirAsia Philippines and AirSWIFT Airlines, and other small carriers accommodating 93 scheduled daily flights.

MIAA said it reopened Manila airport's oldest facility on Monday to serve the traveling public after its domestic operations were suspended in 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

AirAsia Philippines operated 48 flights out of Terminal 4, while CebGo operated 27 domestic flights Monday. Meanwhile, Airswift operated 12 and Alphaland 4. The rest were operated by other small carriers.

Terminal 4 was temporarily converted to vaccination and COVID19 support facility while operations of the three carriers were transferred to Terminal 3 in June 2020 due to limited number of passengers brought by domestic travel restrictions. 

MIAA said Terminal 4-based airlines operated special and sweeper flights from terminal 3 where quarantine facility was set up to screened, quarantined, and ferry passengers bound for provinces, and to pick up foreign tourists who were stranded in different areas back to Manila after the Department of Transportation allowed them to fly for humanitarian reason.

According to the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) Terminal 4 can only accommodate 1.5 million passengers this year due to flight restrictions  on some domestic routes.

Terminal 4 handled 15,000 daily average passengers in 2019 prior to the pandemic. This time however, it will only serve about 12,000 passengers.