Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport
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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Exterior of Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport as of 2023. | |||||||||||
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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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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. On January 17, 2015, Pope Francis celebrated Mass at the airport as part of his pastoral and state visit to the country.