This is a list of airports in the Philippines, grouped by type and sorted by the airport's general location name.
Three classes of airports exist in the Philippines under the new system of classification instituted by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP): international airports, principal airports and community airports. Only airports owned by the national government are classified by the CAAP; the vast majority of minor aerodromes around the country are not owned by the national government and remain unclassified under the new scheme.
Airports in the Philippines have used two different types of classification: one previously by the Air Transportation Office (ATO) and another being used by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), the successor body to the ATO.
The old ATO system divided airports into five classifications under two broad categories: international and domestic airports. These two broad categories were further divided into the following airport types:
Primary international airports are the primary international gateways into the Philippines.
Secondary international airports are airports that are capable of handling international flights but are not designated as primary international gateways. These airports may or may not service actual international flights and may or may not have active customs and immigration facilities.
Trunkline airports or major commercial domestic airports are domestic airports in major cities around the Philippines that are capable of supporting large aircraft. These are, in most cases, the only domestic airports with an instrument landing system.
Secondary airports or minor commercial domestic airports are domestic airports in smaller cities and municipalities usually capable of handling smaller propeller aircraft. Some airports in this classification are capable of supporting jet aircraft. However, these airports are only open from sunrise until sunset, usually requiring notification of airport authorities if nighttime landing is a necessity.
Feeder airports are domestic airports capable only of handling small propeller aircraft. Many of these airports are small airstrips serving far-flung islands.
The new CAAP system revises the previous ATO system, while maintaining the current classification of airports into international and domestic airports. The change was made pursuant to the Philippine Transport Strategic Study and the 1992 Civil Aviation Master Plan. The new system rationalizes the system of airport classification, represented by the following types:
International airports are airports capable of handling international flights. Airports in this category include airports that currently have or have previously served international destinations. There are currently thirteen airports in this category, including all primary international airports, most secondary international airports and Puerto Princesa Airport and Kalibo Airport, both trunkline and secondary airports, respectively.
Principal airports or domestic airports are airports that only serve domestic destinations. There are two types:
Class 1 principal airports are airports capable of serving jet aircraft with a capacity of at least 100 seats. Most airports previously classified as trunkline airports, as well as some secondary airports, are placed in this category. Dumaguete Airport falls in this category.
Class 2 principal airports are airports capable of serving propeller aircraft with a capacity of at least 19 seats. Loakan Airport in Baguio City, previously a trunkline airport, some secondary airports, and Godofredo P. Ramos Airport in Malay, Aklan; Camiguin Airport, Cuyo Airport and Sayak Airport in Del Carmen, Surigao del Norte (on Siargao Island), all feeder airports, are in this category.
Community airports are airports that are used primarily for general aviation. Most feeder airports are in this category and only three airports: Cauayan Airport, Labo Airport in Ozamiz and San Fernando Airport in La Union, all former secondary airports, have regular air service.
Some feeder airports previously classified in the old ATO system, such as Lucena Airport, are not covered by the new system. Airports not owned by the national government which were not classified in the previous ATO system, such as El Nido Airport, remain unclassified under the present CAAP system.
Airport names in bold have scheduled service on commercial airlines.
NOTE on ICAO codes: Under the current ICAO code assignment scheme, airports in the Luzon island group (including the Cuyo Islands, but excluding Masbate, Romblon and the rest of Palawan) are assigned RPL- and RPU- codes; those in the Visayas, Masbate, Romblon and Palawan (except for Cuyo), RPV- and RPS-; and those in Mindanao, RPM- and RPN-. ICAO airport codes with numbers (RP12 thru 17) are temporary; those in italic (RPEN, RPPN, RPTP) may be obsolete or unofficial as they do not fit the current code assignment scheme.
The lists below follow the CAAP's classification for airports in the Philippines.
- ^ Cities that have become independent of the province are listed with the province it was formerly part of, as is the practice for statistical purposes.
Being not owned by the national government and therefore falling outside of the CAAP's responsibility, the various aerodromes listed in this section remain unclassified under the new scheme. These airports, airfields or airstrips are privately owned by individuals, corporations, local governments and/or other civilian entities. Some may be non-operational, abandoned, inactive or already closed. Most can only handle small aircraft, but a few can take some amount of chartered or regularly scheduled cargo and/or commercial air traffic.
- ^ Cities that have become independent of the province are listed with the province it was formerly part of, as is the practice for statistical purposes.
The list below only includes new air transportation facilities being proposed or are under construction.
Bacolod City Domestic Airport (BCD / RPVB)- closed in 2008; replaced by Bacolod-Silay International Airport
Malaybalay Airport (RPMY) - closed in the late 1990s, converted to low-cost housing area
Mandurriao Airport (ILO / RPVI) - closed in 2007; replaced by Iloilo International Airport
Lumbia Airport (RPML) - closed for civilian flights on June 15, 2013 and converted for military use; replaced by Laguindingan Airport
In 2012, the government started bidding out projects for airports' rehabilitation and improvements which included runways, terminal and acquisition of equipment. Included in the program are the following airports:
San Vicente Airport - 62.7-million: development project covers the construction of a passenger terminal, a fire station building, elevated water tank, runway extension with slope protection and hill obstruction removal.
Pagadian Airport - Php42-million: project includes extension of runway, widening of taxiway, rehabilitation and improvement of passenger terminal building, improvement and expansion of vehicular parking area, construction of drainage system, and construction of perimeter fence.
Bancasi Airport - Php45.5-million: development project entails the expansion of the apron, improvement and expansion of vehicular parking area, construction of drainage system, and construction of concrete hollow block fence.
Dipolog Airport - Php55.2-million: project covers the supply of labor, materials, and equipment necessary for the completion of construction passenger terminal building.
Sanga-Sanga Airport - Php63.9-million: project includes new terminal building, an expansion of its apron, and construction of a drainage system.
Awang Airport - Php58.1-million: project includes widening of taxiway and runway to support the program of making North Cotabato as a strategic link to the major “arterial road system” in Mindanao.
Panan-awan Airport - Php43.4 million : improvements to accommodate commercial flights which will include the construction of runway strip and runway subgrade extension.
Mactan-Cebu International Airport - Php17.5-billion: On April 23, 2014, the Department of Transportation and Communications awarded the operations and maintenance of MCIA to a consortium of the Philippine Megawide Construction Corporation and Bangalore-based GMR Infrastructure. MCIAA will turn over to the private consortium the operations and maintenance of the airport starting October 2014. The new terminal building to be designed by local architects will start constructing in November 2015 and it is expected to be completed by 2018.
