DOTR Opens Vigan Airport PTB

 2 June 2022 

The TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT (DOTr) has opened to the public the 79.56 Million pesos Vigan Airport Passenger Terminal Building under the "Build, Build, Build" Program of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.

Secretary Arthur Tugade inaugurated the opening of the terminal on May 25, together with Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines Director General Jim C. Sydionco.

The new passenger terminal project together with ancillary improvements started in 2019, together with runway improvement, extension and expansion components.

With new terminal building, Vigan Airport can now accommodate 150 passengers at any given time increasing its previous capacity of 40 passengers.

Among the other development projects completed at the Vigan Airport include the improvement of its facilities at its arrival and pre-departure areas as well as the construction of the airport's Administrative Building, a powerhouse, vehicle parking area,  the provision of runway strip width correction, provision of runway strip end and runway end safety area at runway end 02, the construction of turn-around pads, additional electrical works at the power house, construction of box culvert, and runway drainage system.

Still ongoing projects at the airport at press time including the construction of water tanks, a vehicular parking area, a cyclone wire perimeter fence, and a runway drainage system.

The airport is not flown by regular flights but served by charters to Manila and other regions in the Philippines.