Bacolod-Silay International Airport
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Bacolod–Silay International Airport Pangkalibutan nga Hulugpaan sang Bacolod-Silay (Hiligaynon) Paliparang Pandaigdig ng Bacolod-Silay (Filipino) |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines | ||||||||||
| Serves | Metro Bacolod and Negros Island Region | ||||||||||
| Location | Barangay Bagtic, Silay City, Metro Bacolod, Negros Occidental |
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| Coordinates | 10°46′35″N 123°00′55″E / 10.77639°N 123.01528°ECoordinates: 10°46′35″N 123°00′55″E / 10.77639°N 123.01528°E | ||||||||||
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2012 Philippine Statistical Yearbook
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| Passengers | 1,317,841 |
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| Aircraft movements | 13,756 |
| Metric tonnes of cargo | 13,667,720 |
Bacolod–Silay International Airport (Hiligaynon: Pangkalibutan nga Hulugpaan sang Bacolod-Silay; Filipino: Paliparang Pandaigdig ng Bacolod-Silay) (IATA: BCD, ICAO: RPVB) is the main airport serving the general area of Metro Bacolod, in the Negros Island Region of the Philippines. This airport replaced the Bacolod City Domestic Airport in 2008. The Bacolod–Silay International Airport inherited its IATA and ICAO airport codes from the former airport.
The airport is located fifteen kilometers northeast of Bacolod on a 181-hectare site in Barangay Bagtic,Silay. The airport, which is built to handle international air traffic, is expected to become the primary gateway to Negros Island Region. It is one of the two active airports serving the island region, the other being Dumaguete Airport in Sibulan, Negros Oriental.
The Bacolod–Silay Airport is designated as an international airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, a body of the Department of Transportation 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.
Planning for a new airport in Bacolod commenced in 1997, when the Japan International Cooperation Agency initiated a study indicating the need for expansion at four Philippine airports: namely Bacolod City Domestic Airport, Mandurriao Airport in Iloilo City, Legazpi Airport in Legazpi and Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport in Tacloban. Of the four airports, two have been completed (Iloilo and Bacolod), one is being built (Legazpi) and another one in planning (Tacloban).
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