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The airport has a 3,310-meter (10,860 ft) main runway (Runway 04/22) with a width of 45 meters (148 ft) that was built by the United States in 1956 as an emergency airport for U.S. Air Forces' Strategic Air Command bombers and was known as Mactan Air Base. [4]
Regulation of airports and aviation in the Philippines lies with the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP). The CAAP's classification system, introduced in 2008, rationalizes the previous Air Transportation Office (ATO) system of airport classification, pursuant to the Philippine Transport Strategic Study and the 1992 Civil Aviation Master Plan. [1]
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The Philippine Air Force was allowed to use the airport in times of war and for required daily missions. [3] The airport would later suspend operations by April 27, 1966, after a new airport opened on the island of Mactan. [3] [4] On February 19, 1981, the first papal mass in Cebu [a] was held at the airport by Pope John Paul II. [5]
Mactan–Benito Ebuen Air Base is located on Mactan island, [1] in Lapu-Lapu City, in the province of Cebu in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. Mactan island is best known as being the location where the Spanish explorer, Ferdinand Magellan was killed by the forces of Lapulapu during his circumnavigation of the earth.
On June 16, 2015, at the 2015 Paris Air Show, Cebu Pacific announced orders for 16 ATR 72-600 aircraft, with options for 10 more, for its regional subsidiary Cebgo to meet growing demand for domestic services. The airline is the launch customer of the high-density Armonia cabin, which seats up to 78 passengers.
The airline resumed its Manila–Singapore flights on August 31, 2006, [20] and launched a direct flight from Cebu to Singapore on October 23. It was the first low-cost airline to serve the Cebu-Singapore-Cebu sector, [21] and competing directly with Singapore Airlines subsidiary SilkAir, the only Philippine carrier serving the route for years until Philippine Airlines resumed direct service ...
The largest handling capacity is now an 80-passenger aeroplane. The concrete runway is 1,400 m (4,590 ft) long and 18 m (60 ft) wide, as well as a small terminal. The terminal shed was erected in 2003, along with two security fences and the airport gate, as part of an airport improvement program initiated by the CAAP. [2]