Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport: Tacloban Domestic Airport and The Gateway to Eastern Visayas

Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport (IATA: TAC, ICAO: RPVA), also known as Tacloban Domestic Airport, is an airport in Tacloban City, Leyte. It is the primary gateway to the Eastern Visayas Region in the Philippines.

I went here for the first time at around 10 AM on July 17, 2013 via Tigerair Philippines. This was during my first time in Leyte, the 21st province on my list.

Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport

Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport

Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport Terminal Departure Area

Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport Terminal Departure Area

Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport was originally constructed as an airstrip for the U.S. air forces during World War II. Back then, it was called as San Jose Airstrip (after the village it is located in).

Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport Terminal Arrival Area

Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport Terminal Arrival Area

Read: Diyo Island

Tigerair Philippines Checkin Counter inside Daniel Romualdez Airport

Tigerair Philippines Checkin Counter inside Daniel Romualdez Airport

Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport is classified as  a trunkline airport or a Class 1 principal (major commercial domestic) airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), the agency responsible for the operations of all the airports in the Philippines excluding the major international airports. It is named after Daniel Z. Romualdez, a representative from Leyte who served as a speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 1957 to 1962. He was the uncle of Imelda Romualdez Marcos, the wife former president Ferdinand E. Marcos.

Terminal Fee Collector inside Daniel Romualdez Airport

Terminal Fee Collector inside Daniel Romualdez Airport

Airlines and destinations

Boarding Area inside Daniel Romualdez Airport

Boarding Area inside Daniel Romualdez Airport

Airlines Destinations
Cebu Pacific Cebu, Iloilo, Manila
Philippine Airlines
operated by PAL Express
Cebu, Manila
Tigerair Philippines Manila
Zest Airways Manila

Statistics

Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport Runway

Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport Runway

As of 2011, Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport is ranked among the top 10 busiest airports in the Philippines by passenger volume out of the 25 major airports in the country with over 1,000,000 passengers.

Ground transportation

Daniel Romualdez Airport Jeepney

Daniel Romualdez Airport Jeepney

Access to the airport is served by the jeepney services on the Downtown-San Jose-Airport route, from Marasbaras route, and the service from nearby Palo. Fare as of July 20, 2013 is Php 13.

Daniel Romualdez Airport Parking Area

Daniel Romualdez Airport Parking Area

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