I would have chosen to fly Cathay because it’s cheaper and it has in-flight entertainment. However, if I booked that, I would have to take Terminal 3—the worst Terminal among the four at NAIA. First, the Immigration there sucks. It takes them forever to interrrogate Filipinos leaving the country so queuing takes at least an hour or so. Second, that terminal was haphazardly built, thus, there are so many mishaps there such as power outages and aircons that keep breaking down. (However, the latest hullabaloo at NAIA was supposedly deliberately done to discredit the former DoTr secretary, who has been a victim of power struggle inside, as a transport journo friend told me. More about that later). Thirs, that terminal is just pure chaos. It does not have enough seats, it’s so disorganized.

So yeah, I have contributed to PAL’s emergence from its bankruptcy.

As for San Miguel’s takeover of NAIA, has there been an improvement? I don’t know. I just know that NAIA parking fees have skyrocketed and ParkNFly has become much more out-of-reach as the rate has doubled. If I had taken ParkNFly for this trip, I would have paid PHP 4,300++. Good thing my mom’s driver is available today and next Saturday or else I would just have booked Grab from our place to airport.

PAL has just announced that our flight is fully booked. Hopefully not overbooked that they would randomly pick people who would be kickee out of this flight. 😑 Cebu Pacific has this bad habit of doing that.