Filipina
Filipina tediri dari 7.107 pulau dengan luas total daratan diperkirakan 343.448 km². Negara ini terletak antara 116° 40', dan 126° 34' BT, dan 4° 40', dan 21° 10' LU. Di timur dia berbatasan dengan Laut Filipina, di barat dengan Laut Tiongkok Selatan, dan di selatan dengan Laut Sulawesi. Pulau Borneo terletak beberapa ratus kilometer di barat daya, dan Taiwan di utara. Maluku, dan Sulawesi di selatan, dan di timur adalah Palau. Filipina memiliki garis pantai sepanjang 36.289 km (22.549 mil) yang menjadikannya negara dengan garis pantai terpanjang kelima di dunia.
Bandar Udara Internasional Ninoy Aquino
In 1974, the detailed designs were adopted by the Philippine Government and was subsequently approved by the Asian Development Bank on September 18, 1975. Actual work on the terminal began during the second quarter of 1978. The terminal was completed in 1981 and had a size of 67,000 square meters with a design capacity of 4.5 million passengers per year. It currently serves all non-Philippine Airlines and non-Cebu Pacific international flights. In 1989, a Master Plan Review recommended the construction of two new terminals (NAIA 2 and NAIA 3), as well as many other facility improvements.
The terminal reached capacity in 1991, when it registered a total passenger volume of 4.53 million. Since 1991, the terminal has been over capacity and has been recording an annual average growth rate of 11%, but improvements to the airport increased its capacity to 6 million passengers yearly. It has 18 air bridges and services 33 airlines (as of May 2011). Interestingly enough, the building does not have a Gate 8 and a Gate 13. Compared with international terminals in other Asian countries, Terminal 1 has consistently ranked at the bottom due to limited and outdated facilities, poor passenger comfort, and crowding (the Terminal has been operating above designed capacity for decades now). In this regard, transport authorities plan to give Terminal 1 a makeover; the plans were approved by President Benigno Aquino III. The makeover and upgrade includes the expansion of the arrival area, addition of parking spaces, and improvement of other terminal facilities.