Jolo Airport

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Jolo Airport Paliparan ng Jolo
IATA: JOL – ICAO: RPMJ
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Air Transportation Office
Serves		Jolo, Sulu
Elevation AMSL		36 m / 118 ft
Coordinates		06°03′13.22″N 121°0′39.76″E / 6.0536722, 121.0110444
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
09/27	1,263	4,144	Asphalt

Jolo Airport (IATA: JOL, ICAO: RPMJ) is the airport serving the general area of Jolo, located in the province of Sulu in the Philippines. It is the only airport in the province of Sulu. The airport 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.

1 Airlines and destinations
- 1.1 Former airlines
2 Future development
3 References
4 See also

[edit] Airlines and destinations

The following airlines currently serve Jolo Airport:

South East Asian Airlines (Zamboanga)

[edit] Former airlines

[edit] Future development

A three million-dollar expansion project, financed by the United States, seeks to rehabilitate the old airport by expanding the current runway to over 2,000 meters, enabling aircraft as large as the Boeing 737 to land at the airport.^[1] A survey on expansion is expected to be undertaken in the coming months.

The rehabilitated airport should enable larger passenger planes to arrive at the new airport, facilitating trade and enabling flights not only to Manila but also to neigboring Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. Currently, the largest plane landing in Jolo is the C-130 Hercules.^[2]