| Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport Paliparang Daniel Z. Romualdez Luparan Daniel Z. Romualdez |
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| IATA: TAC – ICAO: RPVA
Daniel Z. Romualdez
Airport Daniel Z. Romualdez
Airport (Philippines) |
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines | ||
| Serves | Tacloban City | ||
| Location | Barangay Costa Brava, San Jose, Tacloban City | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 3 m / 10 ft | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 18/36 | 2,138 | 7,014 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Passengers | 859,938 | ||
| Aircraft movements | 7,954(2,009) | ||
| Metric tonnes of cargo | 4,546(2,009) | ||
| Statistics from the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines.[1] | |||
Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport (Filipino: Paliparang Daniel Z. Romualdez, Waray-Waray: Luparan Daniel Z. Romualdez) (IATA: TAC, ICAO: RPVA), also known as DZR Airport or Tacloban Domestic 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 Class 1 principal (major domestic) airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, 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 DZR 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 830,579 passengers), based on the 2009 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, the wife of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. It is one of two airports in the Philippines named after a member of the Marcos family, the other being Imelda R. Marcos Airport in Mati City, named after the first lady herself.
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Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport, first known as San Jose Airstrip, was constructed as an airstrip for the U.S. air forces during World War II. It then became known popularly as Tacloban Airport when commercial aviation begun on the airport. San Jose is a village in Tacloban City. The airport was renamed to its current name as a memorial in honor of a parliament member from Leyte named Daniel Z. Romualdez, who became speaker of parliament. He was the father of Imelda Romualdez Marcos, the wife of Philippine president Ferdinand E. Marcos.
Today, Daniel Z. Romualdez serves as the premier gateway to the Eastern Visayas Region in the Visayas.
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Airphil Express | Cebu, Manila |
| Cebu Pacific | Cebu, Manila |
| Philippine Airlines | Manila |
| Zest Airways | Manila |
Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport's facilities include a single-storey terminal building, a communications tower and administrative building. Small cafes surround outside the terminal across the parking area.
The two-storey terminal building consists of the departure and arrival area. The departure area has one boarding gate, scanner, restrooms and a souvenir counter. The arrival area consists of a single baggage carousel, restrooms and porters' assistance desk.
The communication tower is located a few meters away from the east end of the terminal building. It is serving as the main communications facility of the airport.
The administrative building houses the offices of airport staff and the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines.
In terms of passenger traffic, Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport is one of the top 10 busiest airports in the Philippines. The airport's traffic has been increasing positively in the past 10 years, almost tripling the number from its 2001 level to present. The airport is expected to hit the 1 million mark in 2012 based on the current growth rate of passenger traffic.
| Year | Passenger Movement |
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| 2001 | 299,292 |
| 2002 | 303,490 |
| 2003 | 283,573 |
| 2004 | 289,669 |
| 2005 | 328,358 |
| 2006 | 399,885 |
| 2007 | 511,322 |
| 2008 | 627,201 |
| 2009 | 893,997 |
| 2010 | 859,938 |
| Year | Aircraft Movements |
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| 2001 | 6,448 |
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| Year | Cargo Volume |
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| 2001 | 3,361,708 |
| 2002 | 3,203,896 |
| 2003 | 3,018,036 |
| 2004 | 3,060,683 |
| 2005 | 3,506,773 |
| 2006 | 3,618,040 |
| 2007 | 4,134,166 |
| 2008 | 4,546,650 |
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The airport is accessible from downtown Tacloban City with jeepneys plying the Downtown-San Jose-Airport route vice versa and Marasbaras, Palo, Leyte. Since 2010, airport taxis opened services for passengers connecting from the airport to Tacloban City Bus Terminal, the city downtown area and other points of destination such as San Juanico Bridge, MacArthur Landing Memorial in nearby town of Palo and other towns nearby Tacloban City.
A planned new terminal building has been proposed by the city government of Tacloban, to replace 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]