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title: "MNL — Ninoy Aquino Airport, Manila · Orbit"
description: "Ninoy Aquino International Airport (MNL/RPLL) serves Manila, Philippines. Opened 1948, named after Ninoy Aquino, 50.4 million passengers in 2024, 11 km from Manila."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/mnl
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Manila · Philippines · Asia

# MNL — Ninoy Aquino

Ninoy Aquino International Airport serves Manila, Philippines, 11 km from the city centre, and sits at 14.5°N, 121.0°E. This site carries 3 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 after **Ninoy Aquino** — Filipino senator and governor of Tarlac (1932–1983)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninoy%5FAquino%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q86446)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=14.50860,121.02000)

**Website**
[newnaia.com.ph ↗](https://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.

CRK Clark International Airport / Clark 90 km

## Distances from MNL

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is New York, at 13,696 km.

| To                                                      |     | Distance  | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- |
| [Singapore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sin-to-mnl) | SIN | 2,375 km  | 3h 27m    |
| [Dubai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/dxb-to-mnl)     | DXB | 6,905 km  | 9h 05m    |
| [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mnl-to-jfk)  | JFK | 13,696 km | 17h 31m   |

[Distance from MNL to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=MNL&to=JFK) [Map a trip from MNL →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=MNL-JFK)

## Where these facts come from

The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.

What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.

[Measure MNL to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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