The Ninoy Aquino International Airport passenger volume has already surpassed the total number of domestic and international passengers that used the country's main gateway in 2022 for the first three quarters of 2023.

From January to September of this year, the Manila International Airport Authority, which manages the NAIA, registered a total of 33,757,646 domestic and international passengers, an increase of 9 percent over the 30,943,105 passengers registered during the same period in 2022.

This statistic reflects a stunning 59 percent increase in passenger volume for the same period in 2022 and is equivalent to 95 percent of the performance for the first three quarters of 2019, the final full year before the Covid-19 pandemic.

The MIAA added that the domestic and international flight movement remains robust, with 206,050 flights taking off and landing at NAIA from January to September 2023, up 31 percent from the same period in 2022 and 2 percent higher than the first three quarters of 2019.

Comparing this year's first and second quarter data, the third quarter's performance has emerged as the strongest three-month period for both passenger traffic and flight movement.

Since the pandemic, August 2023 recorded the most flights in a month with 23,969, and July 2023 had the most passengers in a single month with 4,185,555.