Paliparang Pandaigdig ng Pilipinas: Lawmakers propose renaming NAIA
Aviation Updates Philippines – Three lawmakers filed House Bill No. 7031 on Thursday seeking to rename the
Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) into the Paliparang Pandaigding ng
Pilipinas, the Filipino equivalent for Philippine International Airport.
Citing the designation of NAIA as the international gateway of the
Philippines, Davao City 1st District Representative Paolo “Pulong” Duterte,
Marinduque Representative Lord Allan Jay Velasco, and ACT-CIS Representative
Eric Go Yap said “there is a need” to identify NAIA as “belonging to the
Philippines.”
“With the proposed name, the airport will easily be identified as the
international doorway of the country, in view of it being in Filipino
language and branding it as the international airport of the Philippines,”
the proposed legislation says.
The bill seeks to repeal Republic Act No. 6639, the law renaming the former
Manila International Airport to its present name Ninoy Aquino International
Airport. RA 6639 was enacted on November 27, 1987, more than four years
after the assassination of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr at the airport.
There have been previous proposals to rename NAIA, especially ones that
would supposedly revert to the original Manila International Airport. Back
in 2017, Atty. Lorenzo Gadon filed that petition for the “sake of political
correctness as well as rebranding for future, for the identification of the
country it represents.”
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