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The Ninoy Aquino International Airport recorded its highest monthly passenger traffic ion January 2026 at 4.96 million, exceeding the 4.86 million recorded in December 2025
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International travel continued to drive growth, with 2.42 million international passengers in January, up 8.16% from a year earlier and the highest monthly international volume
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Domestic passenger traffic reached 2.54 million, an increase of 3.16% year-on-year
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Private operator New NAIA Infra Corp. said airport operations remained stable amid the passenger volume growth, supported by improvements introduced over the past year
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As of January 2026, NNIC has remitted P62.7 billion to the national government since taking over NAIA operations in September 2024
Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) recorded its highest monthly passenger traffic in January 2026, according to private operator New NAIA Infra Corp. (NNIC).
NAIA in the first month of the year handled 4.96 million passengers, exceeding the 4.86 million recorded in December 2025 and making January the busiest month in the airport’s history, NNIC said in a statement.
Passenger traffic followed a strong holiday travel period from December 20 to January 4, when NAIA served nearly 2.6 million passengers across all terminals. Travel peaked on January 4, with 180,089 passengers passing through the airport — the highest single-day passenger volume recorded so far.
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International travel continued to drive growth, with 2.42 million international passengers recorded in January, up 8.16% from a year earlier and the highest monthly international volume in NAIA’s history. Domestic passenger traffic reached 2.54 million, an increase of 3.16% year-on-year.
Despite the higher passenger volumes during both the holiday peak and the rest of the month, NNIC said “airport operations remained stable, supported by operational improvements introduced over the past year.”
These included terminal upgrades, the rollout of biometric immigration e-gates and biometric passenger processing systems, as well as closer coordination among airlines, government agencies, and airport service providers to manage queues, flights, and passenger flow.
For full year 2025, NAIA handled 52.02 million during the year, the highest annual total recorded for the airport and higher than the 50.1 million passengers in 2024.
As of January 2026, NNIC has remitted P62.7 billion to the national government since taking over NAIA operations in September 2024, in line with the terms of the airport’s public-private partnership concession.
