Govt owes us a NAIA rehab

THE bureaucratic drama over the awarding of a contract for the badly needed rehabilitation of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) has gone on for two years, and it has been frustrating to watch. The government has rejected two private sector bids to take on the project, and while the reasons for those rejections may be entirely justifiable, the unavoidable fact is that the best opportunity to undertake the overdue upgrade of the airport — this past year, when use of the airport was severely curtailed due to the Covid-19 pandemic — seems to have passed.