NAIA hikes vehicular parking rates, landing and take-off fees for airlines

This, as the management of the airport was recently transferred to a private consortium.

Beginning Tuesday, October 1, those who would like to use the paid vehicular parking areas of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) have to shell out more cash.

This, as the new management under the New NAIA Infrastructure Corp. (NNIC) implemented a price hike for the use of the parking area.

As per the new pricing chart, for the first two hours, motorbikes will be paying Php 20, cars will be charged Php 50, and buses, Php 100.

For the succeeding hours, an additional fee of Php 10 for motorcycles, Php 25 for cars, and Php 50 for buses, or a fraction thereof.

Meanwhile, the weight of the price hike will be felt the most by those who seek to avail overnight parking, as new respective fees of Php 480 for motorcycles, Php 1,200 for cars, or Php 2,400 for buses have begun to be implemented.

According to NNIC, the move is aimed at easing congestion in the parking lots of the airport terminals, as the “convenient” parking rates of the past have resulted to “disadvantages to travelers.”

The consortium points out vehicle owners using NAIA’s parking lots even though in actuality they have no business at the airport.

The NNIC added that they will “not” be profiteering from the hike, but instead use it to help fund their several improvement projects, such as building new linkways to and from the terminals, and additional parking spaces.

Over to regulator Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA), it said that they could only regulate the rates for the first two hours, but the fees for the succeeding times are under the discretion of the new airport management.

But the authority assured that the fees are movable, and could be lowered depending on the feedback from passengers and stakeholders.

The price adjustment, which is under administrative order no. 1, series of 2024, is the first of its kind in over a decade.

Apart from the parking fees, the NNIC had also begun charging higher take-off and landing fees from airlines using the airport.

Effective for the first year of its takeover, a steeper minimum fee of $794 (depending on the aircraft weight) will be charged for airlines with international operations.

It will be gradually increasing until the NNIC’s 20th year, as the minimum fee by that time would be $1,268.18.

For those with domestic operations, a Php 15,497 fee for a plane weighing up to 50,000 kg will be imposed.

Due to higher take-off and landing fees, it is also expected that ticket prices will increase.

Those are just the tip of the iceberg, as from September 2025, terminal fees for international flights will increase to Php 950 (from Php 550), and the fee for domestic flights will almost double to Php 390 (from Php 200).

NNIC, then-known as SMC SAP & Co., is a consortium led by San Miguel Corporation was chosen by the government to handle the operations of NAIA for 15 years, with an optional extension for another 10 years.

The winning group — composed of San Miguel Corporation, RMM Logistics, RLW Aviation Development, and the Incheon International Airport Corporation — offered the government an 82.16% share in the revenues, well over the bids submitted by their competitors.

The NAIA rehab project is also notably one of the “fastest solicited PPP (public-private partnership) projects of the Philippine government,” DOTr Secretary Jaime Bautista said in the past as the project was initiated in February 2023 and took in proposals until August 2023.

Aside from NAIA, San Miguel is also spearheading the New Manila International Airport (NMIA) in Bulacan, which is scheduled to partially open in 2027 and will have an estimated capacity of 200 million passengers per annum once fully developed.

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