| Basco Airport | |
| Iata: | BSO |
| Icao: | RPUO |
| Type: | Public |
| Owner-Oper: | Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines |
| City-Served: | Batanes |
| Location: | Basco, Batan Island |
| Elevation-F: | 291 |
| Elevation-M: | 89 |
| Metric-Elev: | yes |
| Coordinates: | 20.4514°N 121.98°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Philippines Batanes#Luzon#Philippines |
| Pushpin Label: | BSO/RPUO |
| R1-Number: | 06/24 |
| R1-Length-F: | 4,081 |
| R1-Length-M: | 1,244 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
| Metric-Rwy: | yes |
| Stat-Year: | 2017 |
| Stat1-Header: | Passengers |
| Stat1-Data: | 104,089 25.63% |
| Stat2-Header: | Aircraft movements |
| Stat2-Data: | 2,702 6.46% |
| Stat3-Header: | Cargo (in kg) |
| Stat3-Data: | 1,299,048 15.78% |
| Footnotes: | Source: Statistics from eFOI[1] |
Basco Airport is an airport serving the province of Batanes in the Philippines. It is located in the provincial capital, Basco. It is one of two airports in the Batanes Islands, the other being Itbayat Airport.
The airport is classified as a Class 2 principal, minor domestic airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), a body of the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the operations of non-major airports.
The airport is one of the hubs of Sky Pasada.
Although the airport in the past was briefly served by international flights, the airport is not officially classified as an international airport.
Basco Airport was first built in 1930 as Batan Airfield. During the Second World War, it became a target of Japanese forces during their invasion of the Philippines, seizing it along with the whole island on the first day of the Pacific War on 8 December 1941. Subsequently, the airfield was bombed by American planes in the closing months of the war in 1945, but the Japanese managed to hold on to it until their official surrender.[2]
Data from Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines[1]
| Year | Domestic | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 26,065 | ||
| 2004 | 26,933 | 3.33% | |
| 2005 | 25,376 | 5.78% | |
| 2006 | 22,748 | 10.36% | |
| 2007 | 19,550 | 14.06% | |
| 2008 | 24,288 | 24.24% | |
| 2009 | 19,308 | 20.50% | |
| 2010 | 26,089 | 35.12% | |
| 2011 | 28,428 | 8.97% | |
| 2012 | 25,588 | 9.99% | |
| 2013 | 32,467 | 26.88% | |
| 2014 | 60,683 | 86.91% | |
| 2015 | 73,541 | 21.19% | |
| 2016 | 82,853 | 12.66% | |
| 2017 | 104,089 | 25.63% |
| Year | Domestic | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 3,322 | ||
| 2004 | 2,734 | 17.70% | |
| 2005 | 3,240 | 18.51% | |
| 2006 | 2,726 | 15.86% | |
| 2007 | 1,204 | 55.83% | |
| 2008 | 766 | 36.38% | |
| 2009 | 1,246 | 62.66% | |
| 2010 | 709 | 43.10% | |
| 2011 | 1,926 | 171.65% | |
| 2012 | 1,934 | 0.42% | |
| 2013 | 2,512 | 29.89% | |
| 2014 | 1,890 | 24.76% | |
| 2015 | 2,160 | 14.29% | |
| 2016 | 2,538 | 17.50% | |
| 2017 | 2,702 | 6.46% |
| Year | Domestic (kg) | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 247,978 | ||
| 2004 | 280,210 | 13.00% | |
| 2005 | 346,017 | 23.48% | |
| 2006 | 378,055 | 9.26% | |
| 2007 | 344,832 | 8.79% | |
| 2008 | 301,968 | 12.43% | |
| 2009 | 10,980 | 96.36% | |
| 2010 | 386,512 | 3,420.15% | |
| 2011 | 388,150 | 0.42% | |
| 2012 | 361,389 | 6.89% | |
| 2013 | 510,172 | 41.17% | |
| 2014 | 701,712 | 37.54% | |
| 2015 | 866,985 | 23.55% | |
| 2016 | 1,122,039 | 29.42% | |
| 2017 | 1,299,048 | 15.78% |