Bacolod–Silay Airport

Bacolod–Silay Airport [2] [3] ( Hiligaynon : Hulugpaan sang Bacolod–Silay ; Cebuano : Tugpahanan sa Bacolod–Silay ; Filipino : Paliparan ng Bacolod–Silay ) ( IATA : BCD , ICAO : RPVB ) is the main airport serving the general area of Metro Bacolod , in the Negros Island Region of the Philippines . The airport is located 15 kilometers northeast of Bacolod on a 181-hectare site in Barangay Bagtic, Silay , Negros Occidental . [4] The facility inherited its IATA and ICAO airport codes from the Bacolod City Domestic Airport , which it replaced in 2008. Capable of handling international air traffic, the airport is the busier of the two major airports serving Negros Island , the other being Dumaguete Airport in Sibulan , Negros Oriental . The Bacolod–Silay Airport is designated as a Principal-Class 1 Domestic Airport [3] by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines , a body of the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the operations of not only this airport but also of all other public airports in the Philippines except the major international airports. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacolod%E2%80%93Silay_Airport