Facilities

Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport's facilities include a single-storey terminal building, a communications tower and administrative building. Small cafes surround outside the terminal across the parking area.

• Terminal

The two-storey terminal building consists of the departure and arrival area. The departure area has one boarding gate, scanner, restrooms and a souvenir counter. The arrival area consists of a single baggage carousel, restrooms and porters' assistance desk.

• Communication Tower

The communication tower is located a few meters away from the east end of the terminal building. It is serving as the main communications facility of the airport.

• Administrative Building

The administrative building houses the offices of airport staff and the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines.

Statistics

In terms of passenger traffic, Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport is one of the top 10 busiest airports in the Philippines. The airport's traffic has been increasing positively in the past 10 years, almost tripling the number from its 2001 level to present. The airport is expected to hit the 1 million mark in 2012 based on the current growth rate of passenger traffic.

• Passengers

  Year	Passenger Movement
  2001	299,292
  2002	303,490
  2003	283,573
  2004	289,669
  2005	328,358
  2006	399,885
  2007	511,322
  2008	627,201
  2009	893,997
  2010	859,938

• Aircraft Movements

  Year	Aircraft Movements
  2001	6,448
  2002
  2003
  2004
  2005
  2006
  2007
  2008
  2009
  2010

• Cargo

  Year	Cargo Volume
  2001	3,361,708
  2002	3,203,896
  2003	3,018,036
  2004	3,060,683
  2005	3,506,773
  2006	3,618,040
  2007	4,134,166
  2008	4,546,650
  2009
  2010

Ground transportation

The airport is accessible from downtown Tacloban City with jeepneys plying the Downtown-San Jose-Airport route vice versa and Marasbaras, Palo

Palo, Leyte

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, Leyte. Since 2010, airport taxis opened services for passengers connecting from the airport to Tacloban City Bus Terminal, the city downtown area and other points of destination such as San Juanico Bridge

San Juanico Bridge

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, MacArthur Landing Memorial in nearby town of Palo

Palo, Leyte

Palo is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Leyte, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 47,982 people in 9,272 households.-Barangays:Palo is politically subdivided into 33 barangays.* Anahaway* Arado* Baras...

 and other towns nearby Tacloban City.

Future development

A planned new terminal building has been proposed by the city government of Tacloban, to replace the current building. The new terminal, costing some 300 to 350 million pesos

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, will be built via a Build-Operate-Transfer

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 scheme. Some 500 million pesos was allocated for the terminal's construction, with the city government collecting a share of current terminal fees to shoulder its expenses in constructing the new terminal. No timeline has yet been set.

Incidents

• On 4 August 1984, A Philippine Airlines
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   flight overshot runway 36 and landed in the sea. All 70 passengers and five crew survived.

• On 7 May 2010, a Cebu Pacific
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   ATR 72-500, while parked and finishing boarding procedures for its Tacloban-Cebu flight (5J-429), was hit at the wingtip by an incoming Philippine Airlines
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   Airbus A320-214
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   which was taxiing after arriving from Ninoy Aquino International Airport
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  .