Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport

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Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport Paliparang Daniel Z. Romualdez Panluparan han Daniel Z. Romualdez
Exterior of Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport
IATA: TAC – ICAO: RPVA
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Air Transportation Office
Serves		Tacloban City
Location		San Jose, Tacloban City
Elevation AMSL		3 m / 10 ft
Coordinates		11°13′39″N 125°01′40″E / 11.2275, 125.02778
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
18/36	2,138	7,014	Asphalt
Statistics (2005)
Passengers			327,912
Aircraft movements			4,046
Metric tonnes of cargo			3,448
Statistics from the Air Transportation Office.[1]

Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport (Filipino: Paliparang Daniel Z. Romualdez, Waray-Waray: Panluparan han Daniel Z. Romualdez) (IATA: TAC, ICAO: RPVA), also known as DZR Airport or Tacloban Airport, is an airport serving the general area of Tacloban City, located in the province of Leyte in the Philippines. The airport is classified as a trunkline airport, or a major 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 Tacloban Airport is the 7th busiest airport in the Philippines, outside of Metro Manila (out of the 20 major airports) in terms of passenger volume (with 510,762 passengers), based on the 2007 statistics of the Air Transportation Office. It ranked behind the airports in Mactan, Davao, Iloilo, Bacolod, Cagayan De Oro and Caticlan.

The airport is named after Daniel Z. Romualdez, a former speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives and uncle of former first lady Imelda Marcos.

Contents 1 Airlines 1.1 Former airlines 2 Future development 3 References 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Airlines

The following airlines serve Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport:

• Cebu Pacific (Manila)
• Philippine Airlines (Manila)
  • PAL Express (Cebu)

[edit] Former airlines

• Grand Air International
• South East Asian Airlines
• Air Philippines

[edit] Future development

A new terminal building will be constructed by the Tacloban city government, replacing the current building. The new terminal, costing some 300 to 350 million pesos, will be built via a Build-Operate-Transfer scheme. Some 500 million pesos was allocated for the terminal's construction, with the city government collecting a share of current terminal fees to shoulder its expenses in constructing the new terminal. No timeline has yet been set.^[2]

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• List of airports in the Philippines

[edit] External links

• Airport information for RPVA at World Aero Data

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