Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport
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Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport Luparan Daniel Z. Romualdez (Waray) Paliparang Daniel Z. Romualdez (Tagalog) |
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Exterior of Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport as of June 2015
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines | ||||||||||
| Serves | Tacloban | ||||||||||
| Location | DZR Airport Complex, San Jose, Tacloban | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 3 m / 10 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 11°13′39″N 125°01′40″E / 11.22750°N 125.02778°E | ||||||||||
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 TAC/RPVA
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| Passengers | 1,182,951 |
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| Aircraft movements (2014) | 8,466 |
| Metric tonnes of cargo (2014) | 5,799,107 |
Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport (Waray: Luparan Daniel Z. Romualdez, Tagalog: Paliparang Daniel Z. Romualdez) (IATA: TAC, ICAO: RPVA), also known as Tacloban City Airport, is an airport serving the general area of Tacloban, a highly urbanized city on Leyte island in the Philippines. It is the main gateway from Manila and Cebu to the Eastern Visayas Region in central east Philippines. It is classified as a Class 1 principal (major domestic) airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, the agency responsible for the operations of all the airports in the Philippines excluding the major international airports. As of 2013, Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport is ranked as the eighth busiest airport by passenger volume out of the 45 commercial airports in the Philippines.
The airport is named after Daniel Z. Romualdez, a former speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives. 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.
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