Public Transpo to the Airport. New Features of Local Air Travel

Public Transpo to the Airport

Options travelling to the Pasay airports have been added other than using a private car, taking a taxi, riding the bus and the MRT.

Taking the taxi, you need to negotiate with the driver 1^st for his willingness to go South from North and secondly on the rate.

Using the car, you contend with the heavy traffic, the law enforces and parking.

Riding the bus combined with MRT is tedious. With your luggage, it is an effort moving from pick up point to the next and from entrance to the rear of the coach.

The P2P addresses the difficulties one faces in these different modes of transportation. The Point 2 Point coach is spacious, air-conditioned with enough safe space for luggage. Rates are fixed at P100, almost a third of the non-peak taxi fare, if you can spot one.

You must contend with fixed schedules (about an hour gap in between rides which at times though is not followed to the minute), multiple rides as the stations in the North are in Araneta Center, Ortigas. Given this, one must give enough lead time to meet your check in deadline.

What is convenient about the new mode of transportation is, it covers the fur airport terminals, NAIA 1 (original international airport beside the Nayong Pilipino NAIA 2 (formerly Centennial of PAL), NAIA 3 (fronting Resorts World) and NAIA 4 (small airport). You can take the P2P at the designated terminals at the airports back to the city terminals.

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New Features of Local Air Travel

Those who have not traveled via commercial air for the past decades maybe disoriented to new ways of booking and flying.

Before, one needed to physically go to an airline ticketing office to see flight schedules, seat availability and to book a seat. Now one just does it online. But one must have a credit or debit card with a security code and an active email address. Booking is done real time with the current rate on a first come first served. There are still a few ticketing offices spread over the country but mostly only in the airports.

Rates fluctuate depending on the traffic, date and season. The closer to the flight date, the higher the rate.

Passenger patronage has increased so did new air travel destinations. Checks in lines at the airport are longer but operating hours are longer. There too are added ways to check in: using the internet or mobile phone for web check in or the check in kiosk at the airport. All check in processes are secured by a code where physically printed ticket is no longer necessary.

Boarding passes are bar coded and quickly scanned prior to boarding the plane. One has yet to present an ID for security reasons. Terminal fee is now incorporated in the cost reducing check in steps.

Security is more stringent. Scanners are installed to speed up the screening. At time sniffing dogs sniff at the luggage for contraband detection. Shoes, wallets, metallic objects, phones and belts are still to be separated from the body.

Flight changes are accommodated at a cost subject to seat availability and should be done hours before the booked schedule. Cost is adjusted based on the prevailing flight rate of the new schedule which is usually at a premium.

Flying distances are earned by the passenger to earn points for premium redemption. This is made possible through a unique identification enrollment. Services are likewise compartmentalized which can be customized at an added cost. One can opt not to check in a luggage, not have an in flight meal nor a premium seating.

Lastly, because service is done following a routine, do not expect for a personalized service treatment. This is trade off to a more efficient and safer air travel.

Happy and safe travel