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Itinerary]
Ninoy
Aquino International Airport is the airport serving Manila and its surrounding
metropolitan area. The airport is named after the late Senator Benigno “Ninoy”
Aquino Jr who was assassinated at the airport in 1983 - Wikipedia
30th
September 2015
The
time for my flight to Manila was around afternoon which was also lunch hour so
my friend had pre-order In-flight meal for us. This was my first time to eat
Air Asia meal.
In
flight, stewardess had distributed Health Declaration Form and Arrival Card to
be filling in. Remember to bring a pen for it.
When
in flight, usually I will read magazine and I had saw the advertisement of
“
CAB2KLIA” looks so attractive because it same price with take bus to KL
Sentral which is RM 10 per trip. This service is available within Klang Valley.
When
in Manila, the flight had kept turn in same place due to weather problem. A man
beside of me told me about this as he sat near with window. This also starts
for our convocation. He from Sabah had been gone to Manila for few times and
this time, he brings his friends to travel around. After that, they will travel
to Sibu before back to Sabah. He also told me that he will back on Sunday
because in weekend will be less traffic. He also shared some travel pictures in
Manila to us.
He
shared a story of his friend in Manila. His friend is a loan shark so he is
very brave to travel alone in Manila. When he took for tricycle, the tricycle
driver had bring he to a place and asked him to take out all the money. The
loan shark plan fights with the driver by one to one. Lastly, the loan shark
had given all the money to driver when he took his gun out. I felt quite scary
when heard of this story.
When
arrived airport, we had saw a long queue for yellow taxi. Yellow taxi is
airport taxi so can be trust while white taxi is common taxi so it is has some
risk of taking of it. Last, we took for white taxi after negotiate for driver
and discuss about it. The white taxi driver charged us 1,300 peso to The
Oasis Paco Park Hotel.
In
airport has a booth stated “Free SIM for Tourist” so I took a look. Actually
the SIM card is free but you need to top up 300 peso or 500 peso to activate
it. Last we did not buy any SIM card as we plan to use WiFi in hotel. Airport
also provided free WiFi to be use.
After
came out from airport, I was so surprise with the traffic in Manila because it
did not have rule of it. On the road has a white line show that only two cars
can move but sometime you can see three cars in line move together so the
motorcycle did not have chance to move to front. The driver seat in Manila did
not same with Malaysia, the seat in Manila at left side.
5th
October 2015
Two
of my friends need to check in their luggage so we need to go to airport early.
We scared will met with traffic jam so we had took the taxi at 6 o’clock in the
morning. The taxi we took cost us 500 peso and we need to pay 20 peso for pass
away or toll so that can go to airport earlier compare with big road.
Luckily,
we safety arrived airport. The check in luggage counters for Air Asia did not
have many people compare with other airline which have a long queue. After
checked in luggage, we were having breakfast at Cowan Aisan Express.
I ordered Teriyaki Chickendon which is grilled
chicken with teriyaki sauce which cost me 155 peso. I choose to eat rice to
avoid I feel hungry during the flight.
After
breakfast, we moved to boarding gate. At the entrance of boarding gate has a
terminal fee counter. In Manila, it is required to pay 550 peso of terminal fee
when departure from Manila. All of us prepared to pay for it, suddenly a staff
stopped one of my friends and I to pay for terminal fee because we took the Air
Asia online printed boarding pass while three of them who holding an Air Asia ticket
need to pay for it. Actually three of them are also having same boarding pass
with me but when check in luggage, their pass had been replaced with another
type of pass.
Before
this, our terminal fee 2,750 peso (550 peso X 5) had been gathering together
for one of my friends kept it for payment purpose. In this case, when three of
them paid for the terminal fee, the staff did not return the change to my
friend so end up two of us who did not need to pay for terminal fee only took
back 100 peso per each person. It means that 2,550 peso of terminal fee for 3
people (actual fee is 1,650 peso). I am not sure whether the staff is purposely
not to return the fee or not and we did not ask for he.
It
is better early arrive airport because need to walk quite long distance to
arrive departure hall. The gate number for Air Asia is 101. When having final
checking for flight ticket, one of my friend and I had been stopped by staff
because we did not pay for terminal fee after she checked in system. Then I
told her that we had been told to not need to pay for terminal fee. The staff
answered that as our flight ticket booked in last year so need to pay for
terminal fee. Therefore, we wait for terminal fee staff come to collect the
fee.
While
waiting, I still confuse about terminal fee so I asked for another staff for
clarification and he told me that start from February 2015, passengers not need
to pay for terminal fee. At last, Air Asia staff asked us to pass the money to her
so that she helps us give to terminal fee staff and we can enter into flight.
Luckily I did not spend all pesos, if not sure I cannot back to Malaysia.
I
had done some searching about the terminal fee and the latest news as below:-
All
ticket for flights departing from Manila’s NAIA and sold after February 1, 2015
do have the terminal fee included. During some months there will be a terminal
fee counter for those passengers who bought their ticket before this date.
There will also be a control booth where your payment will be verified – Silent Gardens
