MIAA: Airport terminal fees to be incorporated in airline tickets

Domestic passengers will no longer have to fall in line at the airport to pay their terminal fees. This is because the terminal fee will be incorporated in the ticket price issued by the airline to shorten the departure process at the domestic airport, the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) announced Thursday. 

 

“This will be an added convenience to our domestic passengers as one process will be taken out from the entire experience of checking in for a flight,” MIAA General Manager Jose Angel Honrado said. 

 

Honrado is set to sign next week a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Air Philippines, Cebu Pacific, Philippine Airlines, Seair, Sky Pasada, and Zest Air for the integration of the P200.00 terminal fee into the airline ticket.

 

The P200.00 terminal fee will be part of the total cost of airfare beginning August 1, 2012. 

 

However, holders of tickets bought prior to this date will still have to pay the P200.00 terminal fee at the counters until the eventual phaseout of its domestic terminal fee section.

 

This will benefit millions of passengers who travel via NAIA Terminals 1, 2, and 3. There were 8.43 million passengers who used these terminals in 2011 and 7.37 million in 2010,  with Boracay being the most frequently visited destination. —With Aileen Estoquia/VS, GMA News