Bantayan Airport

Bantayan Airport is a small community airstrip with a paved runway but no services (no fuel). The largest handling capacity is now an 80-passenger aeroplane. The concrete runway is 1,400 m (4,590 ft) long and 18 m (60 ft) 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.[2]

As of June 2013 there is doubt about the future of the airport. CAAP wishes to cease funding it.[3] However President Aquino, who flew into Bantayan airport for his first island visit in February 2014,[4] is interested in the development of the airport.[5]

In October 2015 meanwhile, a private entrepreneur tried to appropriate it.[6]

In February 2015 it was reported that initial work was under way on the construction project to build new airports at Bantayan and Camotes.[7][8] 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.[9]

From mid-November 2017 CAAP stopped operation of Bantayan airstrip, due to the airport's dilapidated state.[10]

In January 2018 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).[11]

In August 2020 Bantayan airport terminal, runway extension to be completed by end of 2020.[12][13]

In November the construction is at its last phase, and the airport open to business in December 2020.[14][15]