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Iloilo International Airport ranks #21 among Asia's Best Airports

On its annual list of The Best and The Worst, web portal SleepingInAirports, released its 2015 honor and horror roll. It ranked the Best Airports in the World and in several other regions/ continents including Asia. 
Photo Credits: CPPArreño
For its Best Airport in Asia list, Iloilo International Airport ranked #21 among the 30 listed airports. It is one of the three Philippine airports that made it to the list, the other two Mactan-Cebu International Airport ranked at #18 and Clark International Airport at #24 .

(Only 10 minutes away from the Iloilo International Airport)
Photo Credit: The Poor Traveler

The list is based on an annual survey of Airports in Asia and across the world and reflects its readers overall airport experience and voted in the 2015 Airport Survey. Here's the complete list.
  1. Singapore Changi International Airport, Singapore (SIN)
  2. Seoul Incheon International Airport, South Korea (ICN)
  3. Tokyo Haneda International Airport, Japan (HND)
  4. Taipei Taoyuan International Airport, Taiwan (TPE)
  5. Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong (HKG)
  6. Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia (KUL)
  7. Osaka Kansai International Airport, Japan (KIX)
  8. New Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport, India (DEL)
  9. Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, India (HYD)
  10. Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, India (BOM)
  11. Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok (BKK)
  12. Tokyo Narita International Airport, Japan (NRT)
  13. Koh Samui Airport, Thailand (USM)
  14. Trivandrum International Airport, India (TRV)
  15. Cochin International Airport, India (COK)
  16. Lahore Allama Iqbal International Airport, Pakistan (LHE)
  17. Bangalore Bengaluru International Airport, India (BLR)
  18. Mactan–Cebu International Airport, Philippines (CEB)
  19. Kolkata Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, India (CCU)
  20. Karachi Jinnah International Airport, Pakistan (KHI)
  21. Iloilo International Airport, Philippines (ILO)
  22. Kualanamu International Airport, Indonesia (KNO)
  23. Da Nang International Airport, Vietnam (DAD)
  24. Clark International Airport, Philippines (CRK)
  25. Baku Heydar Aliyev International Airport, Azerbaijan (GYD)
  26. Surabaya Juanda International Airport, Indonesia (SUB)
  27. Penang International Airport, Malaysia (PEN)
  28. Hanoi Noi Bai International Airport, Vietnam (HAN)
  29. Beijing Capital International Airport, China (PEK)
  30. Kota Kinabalu International Airport, Malaysia (BKI)
Meanwhile, the country's main airport, Ninoy Aquino International Airport was ranked #8 in the Worst Airport in Asia list. BUT it wasn't on the Top 10 in the list of Worst Airports in the World. A big improvement as it was ranked #4 Worst Airport in the World on the 2014 list.

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