Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport
Airport serving Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport (IATA: TAC, ICAO: RPVA), also known as Tacloban City Airport, is an airport serving the general area of Tacloban, a highly urbanized city in the Leyte island of the Philippines. It is the main gateway from Manila and Cebu to Eastern Visayas. It is classified as a Class 1 principal (major domestic) airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines. In 2022, Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport served 1.48 million passengers, making it the seventh-busiest in the country.
Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport Luparan han Daniel Z. Romualdez Paliparan ng Daniel Z. Romualdez | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Owner/Operator | Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines | ||||||||||
Serves | Tacloban | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 3 m / 10 ft | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 11°13′39″N 125°01′40″E | ||||||||||
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Source: CAAP[1] |
The airport is named after Daniel Z. Romualdez, a former speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. It is one of two airports in the Philippines named after a member of the Romualdez family, the other being Imelda R. Marcos Airport in Mati after Imelda Romualdez-Marcos, the wife of the late president Ferdinand Marcos.
On November 8, 2013, the airport was largely destroyed due to the onslaught of Typhoon Haiyan.[2] On January 17, 2015, Pope Francis celebrated Mass at the airport as part of his pastoral and state visit to the country.[3][4]