There are no reports of Marcos confirming or signing anything to rename NAIA to MIA. In a Sept.13 interview, the president stressed that renaming the airport is not among his priorities.
A video erroneously claiming that the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) has reverted its name to the Manila International Airport (MIA) has been circulating online via Facebook. The FB posts came out a day before the 39th death anniversary of the opposition leader.
Of the many new names gamely proposed by some readers for the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in a bid to satirize the proposed bill of Congressman Arnolfo Teves Jr., MAFIA -- for Meldy and Ferdie International Airport -- was the most impressive.
Sa isang pahayag sa media noong Hulyo 5, sinabi ni Negros Oriental Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr. na naghain siya noong Hunyo 30 ng panukalang batas na nagmumungkahi na palitan ang pangalan ng Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) at gawing Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr. International Airport. Binigyan-katwiran niya ang panukala sa pamamagitan ng pagsasabing "ginawa" ang paliparan sa ilalim ng administrasyon ng yumaong diktador. Ito ay nakaliligaw.
Based on the state of the nation address of then-president Manuel Roxas in January 1948, the Manila International Airport (MIA) already existed. That was 17 years before Marcos became president in 1965.
There has been no official statement from the incoming administration of Bongbong Marcos on renaming the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
