Francisco Bangoy International Airport

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Francisco Bangoy International Airport
Davao International Airport.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code RPMD
IATA code DVO
Coordinates

7 ° 7 '32 "  N , 125 ° 38' 45"  E Coordinates: 7 ° 7 '32 "  N , 125 ° 38' 45"  E
Height above MSL 29 m (95  ft )
Basic data
opening 1940s
operator Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines
Terminals 1
Passengers 3,452,479 (2014)
Flight
movements 		23,516 (2014)
Start-and runway
05/23 3000 m × 45 m asphalt

The Davao International Airport ( Filipino Paliparang Pandaigdig ng Francisco Bangoy ), also known as Airport Francisco Bangoy International , is an international airport on Mindanao in the Philippines with the ICAO code RPMd and the IATA code DVO . It is located in Davao City in Barangay Sasa.

Beginnings and development

Airbus A330-301 of Philippine Airlines at Davao City Airport, in the background on the left the old terminal building

The airport's beginnings go back to the 1940s. The property on which flight operations began on an initially 1200 m long grass runway was a donation from Don Francisco Bangoy, the patriarch of an influential family based in Davao City . The airport still bears his name today. After simple huts initially served as handling buildings, a first real terminal was built in 1980. In the course of this, the runway was extended to today's 3000 meters and paved with asphalt. This created the conditions that the airport can also be approached with large aircraft such as the Boeing 747 or the Airbus A330 .

A short time later, rapid growth required an expansion of the terminal building. This too soon reached its limits and a new building was necessary to enable further growth of the airport. Planning for this began in the early 1990s. In 1994 the approval for a loan from the Asian Development Bank was given, which financed the project to a third. The construction phase began in 1999 and in December 2003 a new, larger terminal building was opened on the opposite side of the runway. For the expansion and modernization of the airport, US $ 105 million was initially estimated in the planning phase. However, international exchange rate fluctuations, the financial crisis in Asia and necessary land acquisitions made the project more expensive to US $ 128 million. This terminal, which went into operation in 2003, is the current one, at which all flights in Davao City are processed to date. After the expansion of the airport, up to 10 aircraft can land there per hour.

In the course of the modernization, the airport fee for domestic flights was raised from 40 Pesos to 200 Pesos and has since been at the same level as at the international airports in Manila and Cebu . This fee is usually to be paid by the passenger in cash at the airport. The terminal fee is only included in the price of the flight ticket for domestic flights from Cebu Pacific .

Airlines and Destinations

airline Destinations
Cathay Dragon Hong Kong
Cebu Pacific Bacolod , Cebu , Clark , Iloilo , Manila , Singapore , Tagbilaran , Zamboanga
Cebu Pacific

operated by Cebgo

Cagayan de Oro
Garuda Indonesia Manado
Philippine Airlines Cebu , Clark , Manila
Philippine Airlines

operated by PAL Express

Cebu , Clark , Iloilo , Manila , Siargao , Tagbilaran , Zamboanga
Philippines AirAsia Cebu , Clark , Manila
Qatar Airways Doha
Silk Air Singapore
XiamenAir Quanzhou

An earlier scheduled flight connection from Wings Air to Manado, Indonesia, as well as charter flights to Indonesia through Sriwijaya Air that were briefly started in October 2014 have been suspended.

statistics

The tower of Davao City Airport
year National International
Passenger
movements		 Air freight
(kg)		 Aircraft
movements		 Passenger
movements		 Air freight
(kg)		 Aircraft
movements
2004 854.754 32,515,758 8,634 16,721 --- 230
2005 1,322,064 50.372.167 14,112 20,635 --- 370
2006 1,307,635 40,753,487 12,928 46,833 --- 517
2007 1,502,600 45.522.243 13,754 29,644 15,455 499
2008 1,646,347 53.287.642 15,178 43,530 14,931 409
2009 1,935,454 34.172.210 18,746 32,496 84,429 452
2010 2,207,684 40,568,631 19.164 21,439 217.195 438
2011 2,601,285 39,714,524 22,530 27,397 55,247 522
2012 2,923,327 42.118.391 25,460 39,916 67,392 634
2013 2,773,691 49.757.177 29,104 33,538 71,841 536
2014 3,408,663 53.714.155 22,822 43,816 76,347 694
2015 3,185,937 59.737.244 26,058 50,974 77,062 758

Source:

Accidents and incidents

  • On April 19, 2000, an Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 crashed on its flight from Manila to Davao while approaching the airport. All 131 people on board were killed (see also Air Philippines flight 541 ) .
  • On March 4, 2003, a bomb exploded in the waiting area in front of the old terminal building. 21 people died and 145 others were injured in the explosion.
  • On the night of August 25, 2008, a Philippine Air Force C-130 Hercules crashed into the Gulf of Davao shortly after taking off from Francisco Bangoy International Airport en route to Iloilo City . After the crash, the machine sank about 250 meters to the bottom of the Gulf. Nine crew members and two soldiers from the Philippine Army were killed.
  • On the evening of June 2, 2013, an Airbus A320 from Cebu Pacific missed the runway in bad weather and came to a standstill off the runway with the nose wheel buckled. All 165 passengers on board and the crew members survived the accident without major injuries. As a result of the incident, Davao City Airport remained closed to commercial air traffic for 2 days until the accident investigation and the recovery of the aircraft were completed. During this lockdown, a total of 31 flights to and from Davao City had to be canceled. As an alternative, additional flights were diverted to General Santos City Airport, some 160 km further south, during this period .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY OF THE PHILIPPINES AERODROME DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT SERVICE ( Memento from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ philstar.com: Davao City International Airport ready for more passengers and larger planes , accessed August 1, 2013
  3. ↑ cebupacificair.com.ph: Travel tax and terminal fee (engl.), Accessed on May 19, 2018
  4. ↑ CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY OF THE PHILIPPINES AERODROME DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT SERVICE ( Memento from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Airplane crashes , accessed on May 9, 2013
  6. ↑ cnn.com at archive.org: Bomb attack on the Philippines ( Memento of December 17, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), originally accessed on May 9, 2013, archived version on March 25, 2017
  7. ↑ inquirer.net: Hercules goes down in Davao Gulf ( Memento of October 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 24, 2019
  8. ↑ inquirer.net: Cebu Pacific apologizes for runway accident in Davao , accessed on June 6, 2013