Bancasi Airport

Butuan-Bancasi Airport
Paliparan ng Bancasi
Tugpahanan sa Bancasi

Main Terminal Building
IATA: BXU – ICAO: RPME
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines
Serves Butuan
Location Barangay Bancasi, Butuan
Elevation AMSL 43 m / 141 ft
Coordinates 8°57′5″N 125°28′41″E / 8.95139°N 125.47806°E / 8.95139; 125.47806Coordinates: 8°57′5″N 125°28′41″E / 8.95139°N 125.47806°E / 8.95139; 125.47806
Map
BXU/RPME

Location in the Philippines

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
12/30 2,100 6,890 Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Passengers 308,405
Aircraft movements 3,294
Metric tonnes of cargo 2,602
Statistics from the Air Transportation Office.[1]

Bancasi Airport (Filipino: Paliparan ng Bancasi, Cebuano: Tugpahanan sa Bancasi) (IATA: BXU, ICAO: RPME), also known as Butuan Airport, is an airport serving the general area of the city of Butuan, located in the province of Agusan del Norte in the Philippines. It is the only airport in the province and largest in the Caraga region. The airport is classified as a trunkline airport, or a major commercial airport, by the Air Transportation Office, a body of the Department of Transportation and Communications that is responsible for the operations of not only this airport but also of all other airports in the Philippines except the major international airports.

Improvement projects

The Philippines Department of Transport and Communications announced that the airport would receive Php 45.5 million pesos in subsidy for expansion of the apron, improvement and expansion of vehicular parking area, construction of drainage system, and construction of concrete hollow block fence, with bidding scheduled to open to contractors on July 5, 2012.[2]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Cebgo Cebu
Cebu PacificCebu, Manila
Philippine Airlines
operated by PAL Express		Cebu, Manila

Incidents and accidents

See also

References

  1. ↑ Volume of Air Passengers and Air Cargo (Air Cargo in Metric Tons) Archived April 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Air Transportation Office, retrieved April 23, 2009
  2. ↑ http://mb.com.ph/node/362249/airport
  3. ↑ "Some hurt as PAL plane misses Butuan runway". GMA News Online. Oct 26, 2007. Retrieved Feb 17, 2014.
  4. ↑ "CAAP shuts down Butuan airport after CebuPac runway mishap". InterAksyon.com. Feb 15, 2014. Retrieved Feb 17, 2014.

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