The avenue was formerly called Nichols Field Road, later shortened to Nichols Road, after the US air base in Pasay which it served. Nichols Field, in turn, was named after Captain Henry E. Nichols, a US Navy commander of monitor ship USS Monadnock during the Philippine-American War. The air base was built in 1912 and the road to Fort McKinley and to Dewey Boulevard was constructed shortly thereafter. The whole stretch from Dewey to Fort McKinley was named Nichols Road. At present, the Fort Bonifacio/Taguig portion is named Lawton Avenue. In Pasay, the longest portion has been renamed to Andrews Avenue, after Frank Maxwell Andrews, the United States Armygeneral officer during World War II and one of the founders of the United States Army Air Force.
Route description
Andrews Avenue follows the old route of Nichols Road in Pasay and is split into three sections. ;Sales Road At its eastern terminus, the route begins as Sales Road at the Sales Interchange with the South Luzon Expressway, near the Nichols railway station. It is a continuation of Lawton Avenue from Fort Bonifacio via the Sales Bridge and a roundabout. It runs for approximately 900 meters as it heads southwesterly across the Villamor Air Base and Villamor Golf Course toward Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3. This section ends with another roundabout at the foot of the NAIA Expressway NAIA-3 off-ramp just before the road makes a sharp bend to the west. ;Andrews Avenue The main section of Andrews Avenue is an eight-lane divided arterial that runs along the northern perimeter of the airport. From the roundabout across from the Philippine Air Force Aerospace Museum, the avenue continues along the southern side of Newport City, a mixed-use development facing the NAIA Terminal 3. It passes the integrated resort complex of Resorts World Manila, the Star Cruises Centre and the Shrine of St. Therese before reaching a large roundabout with a prominent "egg structure" in the middle called Circulo del Mundo. It was demolished in 2015 to give way to the construction of NAIA Expressway extension. Access to the airport terminal is via this roundabout which also serves as a boundary between Newport and the older barangays of Pasay. From the former Circulo down to the intersection with Domestic Road, the avenue is lined with airline offices and maintenance facilities, as well as a few barangays in between. The Manila Light Rail Transit facilities are also located in this intersection before the avenue becomes known as Airport Road. ;Airport Road West of Domestic Road and a small creek called Estero de Tripa de Gallina, the road enters the Baclaran area of Parañaque. The road narrows into a four-lane undivided road carrying one-way westbound traffic. The road meets its western terminus at Roxas Boulevard.
