Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport (Filipino: Paliparang Daniel Z. Romualdez, Waray-Waray: Luparan Daniel Z. Romualdez) (IATA: TAC, ICAO: RPVA), also known as DZR Airport or Tacloban Domestic Airport, is an airport serving the general area of Tacloban City, in Leyte, Philippines. It is the main gateway from Manila and Cebu to the Eastern Visayas Region in central Philippines. It is a Class 1 principal (major domestic) airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, the agency responsible for the operations of all the airports in the Philippines excluding the major international airports. As of 2011, Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport is ranked as the 7th busiest of the 25 major airports in the country by passenger volume.
The airport is named after Daniel Z. Romualdez, a former speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives. It is one of two airports in the Philippines named after a member of the Marcos family, the other being Imelda R. Marcos Airport in Mati City after Imelda Marcos, the wife of the late president Ferdinand Marcos.
Read more about Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport: History, Airlines and Destinations, Facilities, Statistics, Ground Transportation, Future Development, Incidents
Famous quotes containing the words daniel and/or airport:
“When winter snows upon thy sable hairs,
And frost of age hath nipped thy beauties near;
When dark shall seem thy day that never clears,
And all lies withered that was held so dear,
Then take this picture which I here present thee,
Limned with a pencil not all unworthy;”
—Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)
“It was like taking a beloved person to the airport and returning to an empty house. I miss the people. I miss the world.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)