The Philippines is threading its first subway to the airport. The country’s Department of Transportation awarded the contract to build the Metro Manila Subway’s airport branch to a team of D.M. Consunji and Japan’s Taisei, connecting the mainline to Ninoy Aquino International Airport’s Terminal 3.
Project Scope
The airport branch tunnels off the main north-south alignment to reach NAIA, one of Southeast Asia’s busiest terminals. The Metro Manila Subway is being built with Japanese development financing and Japanese tunneling expertise, and the airport link is meant to give travelers a rail option into a metro region long choked by road traffic. Work involves bored tunnel, a station box at the airport, and tie-ins to the spine line now under construction.
Why It Matters
Manila has talked about a subway for decades. Getting trains to the airport turns the line from a commuter project into a piece of national infrastructure, the kind of connection that reshapes how a capital moves. For the contractors, it’s another marker of the Japanese-Philippine partnership on a program that has become the template for large transit delivery across the region.
Project Team & Details
| Owner / Client | Department of Transportation (Philippines) |
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| General Contractor | D.M. Consunji, Inc. / Taisei Corporation (JV) |
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| Status | Under Construction |
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| Delivery Method | Design-Build |
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| Funding Source | Public (Federal) |
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