Basco Airport

Pagtayaban ti Basco
Paliparan ng Basco
Summary
Airport typePublic
Owner/OperatorCivil Aviation Authority of the Philippines
ServesBasco
Opened1930 (1930)
Elevation AMSL89 m / 291 ft
Coordinates20°27′05″N 121°58′48″E / 20.45139°N 121.98000°E / 20.45139; 121.98000
Maps
BSO/RPUO is located in Batanes
BSO/RPUO
BSO/RPUO
BSO/RPUO is located in Luzon
BSO/RPUO
BSO/RPUO
BSO/RPUO is located in Philippines
BSO/RPUO
BSO/RPUO
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
06/24 1,244 4,081 Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Passengers104,089
Increase 25.63%
Aircraft movements2,702
Increase 6.46%
Cargo (in kg)1,299,048
Increase 15.78%
Source: Statistics from eFOI[1]

Basco Airport (Ilocano: Pagtayaban ti Basco, Filipino: Paliparan ng Basco; IATA: BSO, ICAO: RPUO) is an airport serving the province of Batanes in the Philippines. It is located in the provincial capital, Basco. It is one of two airports in the Batanes Islands, the other being Itbayat Airport.

The airport is classified as a Class 2 principal, minor domestic airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), a body of the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the operations of non-major airports.

The airport is one of the hubs of Sky Pasada.

Although the airport in the past was briefly served by international flights, the airport is not officially classified as an international airport.

History

Basco Airport was first built in 1930 as Batan Airfield. During the Second World War, it became a target of Japanese forces during their invasion of the Philippines, seizing it along with the whole island on the first day of the Pacific War on 8 December 1941. Subsequently, the airfield was bombed by American planes in the closing months of the war in 1945, but the Japanese managed to hold on to it until their official surrender.[2]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Leading Edge Clark
PAL Express Manila[3]
Sky Pasada Tuguegarao

Statistics

Data from Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines[1]

Passenger movements

YearDomesticChange
2003 26,065Steady
2004 26,933Increase 3.33%
2005 25,376Decrease 5.78%
2006 22,748Decrease 10.36%
2007 19,550Decrease 14.06%
2008 24,288Increase 24.24%
2009 19,308Decrease 20.50%
2010 26,089Increase 35.12%
2011 28,428Increase 8.97%
2012 25,588Decrease 9.99%
2013 32,467Increase 26.88%
2014 60,683Increase 86.91%
2015 73,541Increase 21.19%
2016 82,853Increase 12.66%
2017 104,089Increase 25.63%

Aircraft movements

YearDomesticChange
2003 3,322Steady
2004 2,734Decrease 17.70%
2005 3,240Increase 18.51%
2006 2,726Decrease 15.86%
2007 1,204Decrease 55.83%
2008 766Decrease 36.38%
2009 1,246Increase 62.66%
2010 709Decrease 43.10%
2011 1,926Increase 171.65%
2012 1,934Increase 0.42%
2013 2,512Increase 29.89%
2014 1,890Decrease 24.76%
2015 2,160Increase 14.29%
2016 2,538Increase 17.50%
2017 2,702Increase 6.46%

Cargo movements

YearDomestic (kg)Change
2003 247,978Steady
2004 280,210Increase 13.00%
2005 346,017Increase 23.48%
2006 378,055Increase 9.26%
2007 344,832Decrease 8.79%
2008 301,968Decrease 12.43%
2009 10,980Decrease 96.36%
2010 386,512Increase 3,420.15%
2011 388,150Increase 0.42%
2012 361,389Decrease 6.89%
2013 510,172Increase 41.17%
2014 701,712Increase 37.54%
2015 866,985Increase 23.55%
2016 1,122,039Increase 29.42%
2017 1,299,048Increase 15.78%

See also

Notes

    References

    1. 1 2 Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (23 July 2018). "Yearly Passenger, Cargo and Aircraft Movements of all airports in the Philippines 1997–2017". Republic of the Philippines – Freedom of Information Portal. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
    2. ↑ "Basco Airfield (Batan Airfield)". Pacific Wrecks. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
    3. ↑ Liu, Jim. "Philippine Airlines Clark / Manila domestic network changes from March 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
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