The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) on Thursday welcomed news that the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 was finally discarded from an online survey’s list of World’s Worst Airports.

NAIA Terminal 1 over the weekend was reported to have shed off its being 1st in the “World’s Worst Airport” list from 2011 to 2013 to only 8th in the “Worst Airports in Asia’ list this year.