Stories from the trip: Terminal 3
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From October 15: After many hugs, we piled our luggage onto a cart and headed briskly into Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1.
The security guard looked at our tickets and said, "Congratulations! You’re at the wrong terminal!" – but so cheerfully that it took the edge off my panic.
I scrambled to find my cellphone. I called my parents, who had dropped us off. "Eep! Terminal 3!" Fortunately, they weren’t far off. More hugs, a quick un-pile and re-pile of luggage, and we were at the (relatively) new Terminal 3. We had flown out of and into that terminal for our domestic flights, so I was familiar with it, but this is the first time we’d flown out of it for an international flight.
Anyway, it stuck with me a little. =) It’s fun to see people having fun at work.
2 comments
mpg
2011-11-14T17:33:24ZWhat do you think of the airport? They keep saying in the news that NAIA is one of the worst airports in the world but I think Terminal 2 and 3 are actually quite nice. I almost never need to go to Terminal 1.
Sacha Chua
2011-11-15T03:02:30ZI actually don't mind either that much, although Terminal 3 is pretty neat. NAIA Terminal 1 looks dated, but there's a certain comforting sameness to it - the same layout, the same lineups, the same hustle around the baggage conveyor belt. Also, it helps that we meet up under the sign for last names that start with Z instead of C - little things!