Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport

Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport ( Waray : Luparan Daniel Z. Romualdez , Tagalog : Paliparang Daniel Z. Romualdez ) ( IATA : TAC , ICAO : RPVA ), also known as Tacloban City Airport , is an airport serving the general area of Tacloban , a highly urbanized city in Leyte island in the Philippines . It is the main gateway from Manila and Cebu to the Eastern Visayas Region in central east Philippines. It is classified as 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 2017, Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport is ranked as the eighth-busiest and the third-fastest growing airport by passenger volume out of the 45 commercial airports in the Philippines . 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 Romualdez family, the other being Imelda R. Marcos Airport in Mati after Imelda Romualdez-Marcos , the wife of the late president Ferdinand Marcos . On 8 November 2013, the airport was largely destroyed due to the onslaught of Typhoon Haiyan . [4] On 17 January 2015, the airport apron was the site of a large open-air mass held by Pope Francis that attracted nearly half a million pilgrims coming from all over the country to remember the effects of Typhoon Haiyan . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Z._Romualdez_Airport