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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]
The runway was built by the United States Air Force in 1956 as an emergency airport for Strategic Air Command bombers. It was known back then as the Mactan Air Base. [4] It remained a spartan outpost until the Vietnam War in the 1960s when it became a base for a C-130 unit of the U.S. Air Force.
^1 Morocco temporarily suspends DST for the month of Ramadan. ^2 CHI is the common IATA code for O'Hare International Airport (IATA: ORD), Midway International Airport (IATA: MDW), DuPage Airport (IATA: DPA), Gary/Chicago International Airport (IATA: GYY), Chicago Executive Airport (IATA: PWK) and Chicago Rockford International Airport (IATA: RFD).
A baggage tag for a flight heading to Oral Ak Zhol Airport, whose IATA airport code is "URA". An IATA airport code, also known as an IATA location identifier, IATA station code, or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter geocode designating many airports and metropolitan areas around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). [1]
Ngurah Rai International Airport [1] Jakarta: Soekarno–Hatta International Airport [1] Japan: Fukuoka: Fukuoka Airport [1] Nagoya: Chubu Centrair International Airport [1] Niigata: Niigata Airport: Terminated [7] Osaka: Kansai International Airport [1] Sapporo: New Chitose Airport [1] [8] Tokyo: Narita International Airport [1] Kuwait: Kuwait ...
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code is always used as first and second characters of time zone code. If country is not divided into separate time zones – no more characters added. Just 2 characters used. If country is divided into time zones – 3rd character of time zone code is a digit – number of time zone in country.
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]
The ICAO airport code or location indicator is a four-letter code designating aerodromes around the world. These codes, as defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization and published quarterly in ICAO Document 7910: Location Indicators , are used by air traffic control and airline operations such as flight planning .