- IATA
- MNL
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- RPLL
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1948
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 50.4M
- in 2024
History & name
Ninoy Aquino International Airport opened in 1948 and is named after Ninoy Aquino (1932–1983), the Filipino senator and governor of Tarlac. It is operated by the Manila International Airport Authority and the New NAIA Infrastructure Corporation, lies 11 km from Manila and handled 50.4 million passengers in 2024.
Named afterNinoy Aquino — Filipino senator and governor of Tarlac (1932–1983)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Ninoy Aquino International Airport
- Serves
- Manila, Philippines
- City centre
- 11 km from Manila
- Opened
- 1948
- Operator
- New NAIA Infrastructure Corporation, Manila International Airport Authority
- Passengers
- 50.4 million in 2024
- Runways
- 2 runways, longest 3,737 m
- Elevation
- 75 ft (23 m)
- Website
- newnaia.com.ph ↗
Where it sits
14.5°N, 121.0°E puts MNL in the northern hemisphere, 1,613 km from the equator and 8,394 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 438th most northerly, which makes it the 224th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 14.5°S, 59.0°W — 333 km from Várzea Grande–Marechal Rondon (CGB) in Brazil, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Clark International Airport / Clark (CRK), 90 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
Distances from MNL
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is New York, at 13,696 km.
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
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