BetterNAIA

What's new on Better NAIA

Every change to the site, newest first: pages I've added, things I've fixed, and data I've cleaned up. If a page looks different from last week, the reason is here.

  1. 👻 Dark mode, for dark o'clockImprovedThe whole site can now be dark, with a toggle in the header that remembers your choice.
  2. ✨ Better UX across the siteImprovedShorter pages, clearer flight statuses, and a menu that takes fewer taps.
  3. 🧭 Today at NAIAImprovedThe briefing on the home page is now built around what you want to know before you travel.
  4. 🚧 What is closed, and whether it matters to youNewEvery notice in force at NAIA, in plain words, with the few that could reach your flight sorted to the top.
  5. 🌦️ The weather line now looks aheadImprovedThe homepage weather briefing now warns you when the next few hours look different from right now.
  6. 📡 What's circling overheadImprovedThe homepage briefing now tells you when arrivals are circling or going around over Manila.
  7. 🖼️ No camera? Upload the photo insteadImprovedThe boarding-pass scanner now also reads a photo, not just a live camera.
  8. 🐌 Which flights are running lateNewA board grouping MNL departures by how and how badly they're delayed.
  9. ⭐ Rate the loungeNewRecommend a lounge or leave a review on any lounge page.
  10. 📷 Scan your boarding passImprovedPoint your camera at the barcode on your boarding pass and land straight on your flight.
  11. 🛋️ Every lounge, and how to get inNewThe lounges in each terminal, and whether your card, your membership or your ticket opens the door.
  12. 🤖 Bonbon finds more of what you askImprovedThe airport assistant handles more destinations, knows dining hours, and stops guessing links.
  13. 🛣️ The Last MileNewCheck how the roads into each terminal are moving before you leave.
  14. 🇵🇭 Para sa mga OFWNewThe OFW lounge, the exit clearance and the terminal fee refund, in one set.
  15. 🍽️ Rate the foodNewRecommend an outlet or leave a review on any dining page.
  16. 🗺️ Getting to Siargao, and sleeping through a layoverNewHow to reach Siargao from Manila, and where to sleep through a long layover.
  17. ✈️ Your first flight out of ManilaNewA step by step departure walkthrough, domestic and international.
  18. 📋 Menus and pricesNewDining pages carry the actual menu, dishes and peso prices.
  19. 🧳 Which counters to walk toNewAirline and flight pages show the counters your airline usually opens.
  20. 🛩️ Airbus or Boeing?NewA weekly tally of who built the planes leaving Manila.
  21. 🚪 Gates, carousels, and statuses you can trustDataArrivals show the baggage carousel, departures show the counter and gate, and statuses settle faster.
  22. ⏳ How busy is it going to beNewSee when the security and immigration lines get heavy, hour by hour.
  23. 🎫 Flight pages that read like a tripImprovedFlight pages walk the day in order, and say when the flight does not fly today.
  24. 💬 Ask BonbonNewA chat that answers NAIA questions and can look things up while you ask.
  25. 🔎 Search finds more than flightsImprovedSearch now turns up food, airlines, destinations and guides, not just flights.
  26. 🍜 Everything open at NAIANewA dining directory by terminal, with a page for every outlet.
  27. 🛫 A board for your airline, and for your routeNewLive boards filtered to one airline or one destination city.
  28. 🛂 Immigration questions, and a tax you may not oweNewTwo guides: what immigration screens for, and who can skip the travel tax.
  29. 🏠 A clearer front doorImprovedThe home page and the flight boards were rebuilt around what people come here for.
  30. 🔍 Search any flight, from any pageNewA search box in the header finds a flight by number, airline or city.
  31. 🪪 The e-gates, explainedNewWho can use the automated immigration gates, leaving and arriving.
  32. 🏢 A page for each terminalNewA profile page for each terminal, plus an overview of the airport.
  33. 🧭 Which terminal does my airline fly from?NewSearch your airline to find which terminal it flies from.
  34. 📚 Seven more guidesNewSeven guides: getting there, luggage storage, smoking areas, terminal transfers, connections, baggage rules and passenger rights.
  35. 🔢 Gate numbers that are real gatesFixedDeparture gates sometimes showed a number that does not exist at that terminal.
  36. 📰 Today at NAIA, at a glanceNewThe home page opens with today's weather, parking and cancellations.
  37. 🚫 Cancelled flights, in one listNewThe day's cancelled flights, on one page.
  38. 🅿️ Parking slots, travel tax and eTravelNewThree guides: parking with live slot availability, the travel tax, and the eTravel declaration.
  39. 🗂️ Every airline that flies to ManilaNewA directory of every airline serving Manila, with a page for each one.
  40. 🎟️ A page for every flightNewEvery flight has a page of its own: times, aircraft, terminal, gate and where it is now.
  41. 🛬 Departures and arrivals, liveNewLive departures and arrivals for every flight through NAIA, filterable by terminal.