with train tickets being more expensive and ships just taking too long, not to mention it's seasickness factor, flying has been easier on the pocket for the distance-hungry. although, hard-core environmentalists will burn me at the stake for endorsing flying more than any other transportation. that is until teleportation is in reality. (<--dork) i also endorse hitchhiking! but that really isn't a form of transportation, technically speaking. anyway, enough with the brainfart babbling and back to airports.
airports give the first impression to the place we are going to. surely, there are those business types who spend more time in airports/in transit. (like George Clooney in that movie which i haven't seen yet!) the other countries have realized that need and so why can't the philippines do so too. (forgive me for being stupid in disregarding more pressing matters the gov't needs to focus on, we do have a sector for tourism and that's what im trying to reach)
not to leave out the fact that airports are supposedly good candidates for traveller's spending the night. instead of waiting for a red-eye flight by paying overly priced airport hotels which never are worth it, airports should always be an option in this modern age.
this website "the Budget Traveller Guide to Sleeping in Airports" puts Manila International Airport(NAIA) to be in the world's worst airports list. one review by Brenty says,
"the worst airport on the planet. It has to be experienced to be believed. Think of a bombed out ruin and you'll get some idea."
more on the website http://www.sleepinginairports.net/asia/manila.htm
it's sad how Manila's Airports are crap.
personally, i have flown to better low-cost airline airports in europe and asia while the Manila International Airport has loads of good airlines landing on shit. I swear if i were the head of tourism back home, it'd be my first thing to fix. Sure, we have Centennial and that new one which has the ceiling collapsing on it before it even opens. but centennial only has Philippine Airlines to cater its services to. and while, yes, the terminal 3 is beautiful(flew out of it with a domestic flight to Boracay and international flight to Shanghai) i can't say i trust how long it will be maintained to be beautiful let alone standing with it's previous luck. also, there is that thing where a lot of people just for some reason bring the whole barangay to pick up or send off someone. it's endearing and charming. it makes for a good and heartwarming sendoff too. but the crowds and the way that they make themselves at home in a public place is just not helping with the productivity of the place. if there weren't such big crowds in it, things would move smoother.
there are those crooks too. and bribery. baah. there's too much to fix.
goes and wanders
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