from the radio

On the way to my dermatologist today, I was listening to the radio and particularly took interest in 2 things reported.
1) In the devastation of the torrential rains pouring down on the Philippines in the last couple of days, streets have been flooded everywhere. Despite that, Metro Manila Development Authority Chairman Bayani Fernando reports with confidence that currently the metropolitan suffers 85% less flooded streets, thanks to the effective MMDA Flood Control Project. You gotta hand it to them, Manila among others is not easy to protect from floods because the city itself is below sea level, and personally, I see the difference from when I was a kid.
2) For the third time since 2006, another part of the ceiling fell down in Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal III. At first, they open it prematurely without first making sure all equipment are installed and all airport services are operated at the very least to a minimum doable capacity, but now, another ceiling crashes down. What more will it take before the airport authority realize the need to do a make-over?

While we're on the topic: On the record, Cebu Pacific boasts of its impressive On-Time-Performance (OTP), averaging at 86.5% from Aug 8 to Sept 7, its first month of operations in its newfound home in NAIA 3. OTP is measured as the average percentage of flights leaving at most 15 minutes from its announced time of departure. European and North American airlines average percentages in the 70's.