THE government took a giant step toward air travel modernization when it awarded the management of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) to San Miguel Corp. (SMC), the food and infrastructure conglomerate, for the next 25 years. SMC has partnered with Incheon International Airport of South Korea, rated as the world's fourth best airport after Singapore's Chiangi, Qatar's Doha Hamad and Japan's Tokyo Haneda, to run NAIA.