Bancasi Airport

Bancasi Airport
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.

Bancasi Airport (IATA: BXU, ICAO: RPME) 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.

The airport is known as Paliparan ng Bancasi in Filipino and as Tugpahanan sa Bancasi in Cebuano.

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.