Cauayan Airport
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| Cauayan Airport Paliparan ng Cauayan Pagtagitayaban ti Cauayan |
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| IATA: CYZ – ICAO: RPUY | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Air Transportation Office | ||
| Serves | Cauayan City | ||
| Location | Barangay San Fermin, Cauayan City | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 61 m / 200 ft | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 17/35 | 2,096 | 6,875 | Concrete |
Cauayan Airport (Filipino: Paliparan ng Cauayan, Ilokano: Pagtagitayaban ti Cauayan) (IATA: CYZ, ICAO: RPUY) is an airport serving the general area of Cauayan City, located in Isabela province in the Philippines. It is one of two airports in Isabela, the other being Palanan Airport in the town of Palanan. It is classified as a secondary airport, or a minor commercial domestic airport, by the Air Transportation Office, a body of the Department of Transportation and Communications that is responsible for the operations of not only this airport but also of all other airports in the Philippines except the major international airports.
The airport currently has no commercial flights. There are proposals to reintroduce commercial service the airport, such as an independent Manila-Cauayan route, as well as a route further on to Tuguegarao Airport in Tuguegarao City.[1]
After almost a decade of not hosting commercial service, Cauayan Airport will re-open to commercial traffic on July 21, 2008 using PAL Express aircraft. This marks the return of Philippine Airlines to Cauayan, having stopped its services to the city in 1994.
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[edit] Airlines
- Philippine Airlines
- PAL Express (Manila) [begins July 21]
[edit] Former airlines
[edit] Incidents and accidents
Cauayan Airport was the airport of origin and destination for two fatal incidents in Philippine aviation: Philippine Airlines Flight 215 en route to Manila and Asian Spirit Flight 100 en route from Manila. Notably, it was Asian Spirit Flight 100 that forced the closure of the Manila-Cauayan route in 1999. Since the incident, no airline have served the airport since, and the airport today remains closed to commercial air traffic.
