For quite some time, only one airport was known in the country. the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, commonly known as NAIA, remains the major airport in the country where international tourism and air freight Philippines center upon. With the boom of these industries however, we now see more airports both for domestic flights and international flights to help cater not only to the growing tourism demand but also as a transport & logistics solution to an archipelago as large as the Philippines.
Currently, there are 85 active airports in the country. 11 of them are international airports that cater to international inbound and outbound flights. Aside from NAIA, there is the Mactan-Cebu International airport, Clark, Davao, General Santos, Laoag, Kalibo, Puerto Princesa, Subic Bay, and Zamboanga. The rest of the other airports cater to domestic transport while other airports are used for aviation education.
Last August 24, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) announced their push for new airports to compliment NAIA and Clark as the main gateway airports to the Greater Manila Area (GMA). Tourism as well as air freight services in the Philippines have a good outlook with the proposed development of 2 new airports in Bulacan and redevelopment of the Sangley Airport in Cavite.
The airport in Bulacan has already been approved by the National Economic Development Authority to be developed by San Miguel Holdings, Corp. The proposal estimates an airport that will span 1,168 hectares on a 2,500-hectare land and will be situated in old capital, Bulakan, Bulacan along the Manila Bay. The said airport has the estimated capacity of 100 million passengers, as opposed to NAIA which can accommodate 31 million, with the aim of decongesting the passenger density in Manila & Clark.
On the other hand, even though there is peak interest in the development of the Sangley airport in Cavite, the most recent details regarding the project is that it is still in the earliest stage of approval. While the legal framework for the proposed airport by the local government has not reached DOTr yet, it will be called Sangley Point International Airport henceforth.
Even with much ado about the latter, the development in Bulacan is steadily eying completion within 5 years—ample time for businesses like tourist destinations, mall & leisure locations, dining, and logistics and air freight both locally owned or internationally distributing to and from the Philippines simultaneously develop within nearby locales.
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