Bantayan Airport Explained

Bantayan Airport
Nativename:Cebuano: Tugpahanan sa Bantayan
Filipino; Pilipino: Paliparan ng Bantayan
Icao:RPSB[1]
Type:Public
Operator:Mactan–Cebu International Airport Authority
City-Served:Bantayan Island
Location:Barangays Talisay and Okoy, Santa Fe, Bantayan Island, Cebu, Philippines
Elevation-F:60S–70N
Metric-Elev:yes
Pushpin Map:Bantayan Island
Pushpin Mapsize:250
Pushpin Map Caption:Map showing location of Bantayan Airport
Pushpin Mark:red pog.svg
Pushpin Marksize:8
R1-Number:16/34
R1-Length-F:3,937
R1-Length-M:1,200
R1-Surface:Concrete
Metric-Rwy:yes

Bantayan Airport is an airport serving Bantayan Island in the province of Cebu in the Philippines. The airport is located in the municipality of Santa Fe, approximately 3.9nmi from the centre of Bantayan municipality. It is classified as a community airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP). Since the beginning of 2018, management of the airport has moved from CAAP to Mactan–Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA).

Structure

Bantayan Airport is a small community airstrip with a paved runway but no services (no refuelling capabilities). The largest handling capacity is now an 80-passenger aeroplane. The concrete runway is 1400m (4,600feet) long and 18m (59feet) wide, as well as a small terminal. The terminal shed was erected in 2003, along with two security fences and the airport gate, as part of an airport improvement program initiated by the CAAP.

Salient dates

there is doubt about the future of the airport. CAAP wishes to cease funding it. However President Aquino, who flew into Bantayan airport for his first island visit in February 2014, is interested in the development of the airport.

In October 2015 meanwhile, a private entrepreneur tried to appropriate it.

it was reported that initial work was under way on the construction project to build new airports at Bantayan and Camotes. The initial project phase is to determine a suitable location for the new airport, implying that it may be at an entirely different location on the island.

CAAP stopped operation of Bantayan airstrip, due to the airport's dilapidated state.

the authority to manage the airport in Bantayan Island transferred from the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) to the Mactan Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA).

Bantayan airport terminal, runway extension to be completed by end of 2020.

the construction is at its last phase, and the airport open to business in December 2020.

Sources

Notes and References

  1. http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/aviation-weather/icao-codes PAGASA - ICAO codes

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