{"id":624782,"date":"2023-12-28T09:48:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T04:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=624782"},"modified":"2023-12-28T10:23:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T04:53:57","slug":"philippines-attracts-four-bids-for-main-airports-3-billion-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/philippines-attracts-four-bids-for-main-airports-3-billion-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines attracts four bids for main airport&#8217;s $3 billion upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines attracted four bidders in an auction for the 170.6 billion pesos ($3 billion) upgrade of its main international airport, the transportation ministry said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Ranked by some travel service firms among the world&#8217;s worst international gateways, the aging Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), the fifth largest in Southeast Asia, needs an upgrade to solve chronic flight delays and passenger congestion. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a very important project of the government as we want all our passengers improved travel experience,&#8221; Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines attracted four bidders in an auction for the 170.6 billion pesos ($3 billion) upgrade of its main international airport, the transportation ministry said on Wednesday. Ranked by some travel service firms among the world&#8217;s worst international gateways, the aging Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), the fifth largest in Southeast Asia, needs an upgrade to solve chronic flight delays and passenger congestion. &#8220;This is a very important project of the government as we want all our passengers improved travel experience,&#8221; Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}