GROWING congestion at the country’s premier airport has begun to alarm both the government and the private sector as the demand for the airport’s facilities--terminal and runway—is already way beyond the airport’s current capacity, a government official said.

“In 2015, the Ninoy Aquino International Airport [NAIA] handled 36.7 million passengers--more than its capacity of 30 million for combined terminal capacities,” Maria Cherry Lyn Rodolfo, a member of the Export Development Council Networking Committee on Transport and Logistics, said on Wednesday during a briefing on airport policy.

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