Ninoy Aquino International Airport (MNL) — International Flights

Ninoy Aquino International Airport (MNL) ang pangunahing international gateway ng Pilipinas — around 50 million passengers nung 2024, four terminals, at home base ng Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific, Philippines AirAsia, at PAL Express. Para sa karamihan ng kabayan na pa-Gulf, Hong Kong, Singapore, o Korea, dito ka aalis. Heto ang quick-reference para sa OFW lane, terminal layout, at popular outbound routes ngayong 2026.

Quick facts

50,100,000 passengers used MNL in 2024 (MIAA / NNIC). The airport carries ICAO code RPLL, serves Manila / Pasay, and has 70 international corridors catalogued on this site. 70 corridors are catalogued from MNL, 58 of them with a nonstop carrier on file.

The headline throughput figure is 50,100,000 passengers in 2024 (MIAA / NNIC). Throughput is a useful proxy for exactly two things and misleading for everything else. It predicts queue length — security, immigration and check-in scale with people, not with runways — and it predicts how much slack the airport has when weather or a technical delay compresses a bank of departures. It does not predict how many international destinations you can reach, which depends on the route licences carriers hold; nor does it predict fares, which track competition on the individual pair. A busy airport with one carrier on your route gives you queues without price competition. Primary international gateway; main OFW departure point and balikbayan hub; 4 terminals.

• Codes: IATA MNL · ICAO RPLL
• City: Manila / Pasay, NCR (Metro Manila)
• Hub airlines: Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific, Philippines AirAsia, Bangkok Airways
• International service: Yes

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Popular international routes from MNL

70 international corridors are catalogued from MNL, 58 of them with a nonstop carrier on file and about 917 one-way departures a week in total. 4 carriers base operations here: Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific, Philippines AirAsia and PG. 50,100,000 passengers used the airport in 2024, per MIAA / NNIC.

A connection-only corridor is not a worse corridor, it is a different contract. Bought as one ticket, the airlines own the transfer: the bag is tagged through, the published minimum connecting time is the buffer that protects you, and a missed connection caused by the first flight is theirs to fix. Bought as two tickets, you own all of it — bag reclaim, a second check-in, and no protection if leg one runs late. The price gap between the two forms is usually small out of MNL; the risk gap is not. Where the onward leg is long-haul, the through-ticket also preserves your checked-baggage allowance across the whole journey, including an OFW uplift that would otherwise not apply to a separately ticketed domestic feeder.

OFW + balikbayan tips

19 of the 70 corridors catalogued from MNL are classified as migrant-worker routes. Departure clearance for a worker is a Department of Migrant Workers process; the airline controls only the seat and the baggage allowance. 70 corridors are catalogued from MNL, 58 of them with a nonstop carrier on file.

Uplift-bearing carriers on the MNL board:

• Qatar Airways — 30 kg economy base plus 20 kg programme uplift = 50 kg.
• Emirates — 30 kg economy base plus 15 kg programme uplift = 45 kg.
• Saudia — 30 kg economy base plus 15 kg programme uplift = 45 kg.
• Cathay Pacific — 30 kg economy base plus 10 kg programme uplift = 40 kg.
• Etihad Airways — 23 kg economy base plus 10 kg programme uplift = 33 kg.
• Gulf Air — 30 kg economy base plus 10 kg programme uplift = 40 kg.
• Oman Air — 30 kg economy base plus 10 kg programme uplift = 40 kg.
• Philippine Airlines — 23 kg economy base plus 10 kg programme uplift = 33 kg.
• Turkish Airlines — 30 kg economy base plus 10 kg programme uplift = 40 kg.

The uplift is granted at check-in against an OEC or OFW Pass, so it is documentation that unlocks it, not the fare you bought — and that is where it fails. It does not attach to a low-cost bags-free base fare, because there is no base allowance for it to add to. It does not follow you onto a separately ticketed feeder flight. On a codeshare it is the operating carrier’s rules that apply, not those of the airline whose code is printed on the ticket. And it is per passenger: pooling it across a family only works where the airline publishes a pooling rule. Confirm the figure with the carrier at booking, because excess bought at the MNL counter is priced per kilo.

Halos lahat ng OFW deployment to the Gulf, Hong Kong, at Saipan ay dumadaan sa MNL. Kasama ang OFW lane sa T1 (Gulf carriers — Emirates, Qatar Airways, Saudia) at T2/T3 (PAL, Cebu Pacific). Dalhin ang OEC / OFW Pass (galing dmw.gov.ph), passport with 6-month validity, at contract copy — spot-checked po ito ng BI immigration. Para sa balikbayan box porters, mga PHP 200-400 ang tip depende sa bigat. Tip: i-print ang OEC kahit may digital, kasi may immigration officers na strict pa rin.

Terminals & getting there

4 carriers are based at MNL (RPLL), serving Manila / Pasay in NCR (Metro Manila). Protection at this transfer comes from the ticket, not the terminal: one ticket and the carrier re-accommodates you, two and you own the reclaim, the re-check and the risk.

Terminal assignments and ground-transport prices change without much notice, so treat any published figure — including ours — as something to re-check on the airport’s own channels the week you travel. What does not change is the structure of the risk. If your onward flight departs from a different terminal, the connecting time you need is the airport’s published minimum plus the inter-terminal transfer, and on a separate ticket you also need immigration, baggage reclaim and a fresh check-in inside that window. Build the buffer against the worst leg, not the average one. The single cheapest insurance available on a MNL connection is booking both legs on one ticket, which converts a missed connection from your problem into the airline’s.

Apat na terminal ang MNL. Terminal 1 — most international carriers (Emirates, Qatar, Cathay, Korean Air). Terminal 2 — PAL international + domestic. Terminal 3 — Cebu Pacific, AirAsia, ANA, Singapore Airlines, Etihad. Terminal 4 — small domestic. Pamasahe via taxi from Makati: PHP 250-400; via UV Express o EDSA Carousel to T3: PHP 50-80. May free shuttle bus pagitan ng terminals — pero allow 30-45 mins kapag may bagahe.

All catalogued routes from MNL (74)

• MNL → ICN — Seoul
• MNL → SIN — Singapore
• MNL → HKG — Hong Kong
• MNL → TPE — Taipei
• MNL → NRT — Tokyo
• MNL → BKK — Bangkok
• MNL → DXB — Dubai
• MNL → KUL — Kuala Lumpur
• MNL → KIX — Osaka
• MNL → DOH — Doha
• MNL → HND — Haneda Tokyo
• MNL → MFM — Macau
• MNL → SGN — Ho Chi Minh City
• MNL → AUH — Abu Dhabi
• MNL → CAN — Guangzhou
• MNL → CGK — Jakarta
• MNL → HAN — Hanoi
• MNL → LAX — Los Angeles
• MNL → NGO — Nagoya
• MNL → PEK — Beijing
• MNL → PUS — Busan
• MNL → PVG — Shanghai
• MNL → RUH — Riyadh
• MNL → SYD — Sydney
• MNL → SFO — San Francisco
• MNL → BAH — Manama
• MNL → JED — Jeddah
• MNL → KWI — Kuwait City
• MNL → MCT — Muscat
• MNL → BKI — Kota Kinabalu
• MNL → DMK — Bangkok
• MNL → DMM — Dammam
• MNL → DPS — Bali Denpasar
• MNL → FUK — Fukuoka
• MNL → GUM — Hagatna
• MNL → IST — Istanbul
• MNL → JFK — New York
• MNL → KHH — Kaohsiung
• MNL → MEL — Melbourne
• MNL → XMN — Xiamen
• MNL → YVR — Vancouver
• MNL → SEA — Seattle
• MNL → AMS — Amsterdam
• MNL → BNE — Brisbane
• MNL → BWN — Bandar Seri Begawan
• MNL → IAD — Washington
• MNL → LHR — London
• MNL → ORD — Chicago
• MNL → PNH — Phnom Penh
• MNL → YYZ — Toronto
• MNL → AKL — Auckland
• MNL → CTU — Chengdu
• MNL → HGH — Hangzhou
• MNL → HNL — Honolulu
• MNL → REP — Siem Reap
• MNL → ROR — Koror
• MNL → SPN — Saipan
• MNL → TLV — Tel Aviv
• MNL → YYC — Calgary
• MNL → MAN — Manchester
• MNL → BOM — Mumbai
• MNL → CDG — Paris
• MNL → CMB — Colombo
• MNL → DAC — Dhaka
• MNL → DEL — Delhi
• MNL → FCO — Rome
• MNL → FRA — Frankfurt
• MNL → GMP — Gimpo Seoul
• MNL → MAD — Madrid
• MNL → RGN — Yangon
• MNL → SHE — Shenyang
• MNL → ULN — Ulaanbaatar
• MNL → VTE — Vientiane
• MNL → VVO — Vladivostok

70 international corridors are catalogued from MNL, 58 of them with a nonstop carrier on file and about 917 one-way departures a week in total. 4 carriers base operations here: Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific, Philippines AirAsia and PG. 50,100,000 passengers used the airport in 2024, per MIAA / NNIC.

Fares observed out of MNL

60 corridors from MNL have a live fare on file. Ranking those 60 readings and no others, the lowest cached one-way is ₱5,963 on MNL–CGK and the highest ₱61,053 on MNL–JED. 70 corridors are catalogued from MNL, 58 of them with a nonstop carrier on file.

Those are cache readings, each one the lowest one-way the fare feed returned for that pair when it was last polled — a floor, for a single date, in a single fare class. They are not quotes and not averages, and the cheap end of the board is usually a short regional hop rather than a bargain on a long corridor, so compare like with like before drawing a conclusion. The comparison that does hold across the MNL board is per-hour: divide each fare by the block time and the long-haul corridors almost always look better value than the short ones, which is the arithmetic behind why a regional positioning flight can cost as much per hour as an intercontinental sector.

The busiest corridors catalogued from MNL

70 corridors from MNL are catalogued on this site, reaching 41 countries on 47 carriers, about 917 one-way departures a week in total. 70 corridors are catalogued from MNL, 58 of them with a nonstop carrier on file. 4 carriers base operations here: Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific, Philippines AirAsia and PG.

Ranked by weekly frequency, the top of the MNL board looks like this:

• MNL → ICN (Seoul) — Korean Air, Asiana Airlines, Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific, Philippines AirAsia, Jeju Air and Jin Air, about 98/week, 4.0 h block.
• MNL → SIN (Singapore) — Singapore Airlines, Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific, Scoot and Jetstar Asia, about 80/week, 3.5 h block.
• MNL → HKG (Hong Kong) — Cathay Pacific, Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific and Philippines AirAsia, about 70/week, 2.3 h block.
• MNL → TPE (Taipei) — EVA Air, China Airlines, Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific and Philippines AirAsia, about 63/week, 2.0 h block.
• MNL → NRT (Tokyo) — Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific, All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines, about 42/week, 4.3 h block.

Distance is the wrong first filter between two routings; weekly frequency is the right one. A corridor with many weekly departures gives the airline somewhere to put you when a flight goes wrong; a twice-weekly corridor can turn a three-hour technical delay into a three-day wait, because the next seat is genuinely days away.

FAQ

70 corridors sit from MNL behind the answers below, which are drawn from this site’s own route, carrier and fare files rather than from airline marketing. 70 corridors are catalogued from MNL, 58 of them with a nonstop carrier on file.

Magkano ang taxi from Makati papuntang NAIA? Roughly PHP 250-400 via grab/airport taxi, mas mura ang regular meter taxi. May airport-coupon-taxi sa T1/T3 na flat-rate (mga PHP 500).

Anong terminal ang Emirates flight ko? Emirates flights to Dubai (DXB) ay sa Terminal 1. I-double-check pa rin sa boarding pass, kasi minsan may schedule moves.

Pwede ba mag-balikbayan box check-in sa NAIA? Oo, pero priority tape lang at within carrier baggage allowance. Kung lampas, koreo o forwarder mas tipid kaysa overweight charge.

Saang terminal ang Cebu Pacific international? Terminal 3, lahat ng Cebu Pacific (5J) flights — domestic at international — ay sa T3.

May OFW lane ba sa lahat ng terminal? Oo, pero may dedicated DMW counter sa T1, T2, at T3. T1 ang busiest sa Gulf-bound OFWs.

How many international corridors does MNL have on this site? 70 corridors are catalogued from MNL, of which 12 have no nonstop carrier on file and are flown as connections, in most cases through Manila.

Which airlines are based at MNL? 4 carriers are recorded as basing operations at MNL: Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific, Philippines AirAsia and PG. The airport’s ICAO code is RPLL and it serves NCR (Metro Manila).

How busy is MNL? 50,100,000 passengers used MNL in 2024, per MIAA / NNIC. Throughput predicts queueing time and how much recovery capacity the airport has on a disrupted day; it does not predict fares, which follow competition on each individual route.

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Updated 9 May 2026. FlyPilipinas is a 14-person Filipino editorial team; content is researched and edited by Filipino travel and OFW specialists. About the author →.