NSCB - Sexy Statistics - BIG, BUZZiest AIRPORTS

BIG, BUZZiest AIRPORTS
(Posted 29 June 2012)

In 1976, there were 131 registered airports in the country. This increased over the years peaking at 300 airports in 1994 but has declined to 203 airports by 2010 due to the decline in operating private airports. It may be noted that the significant decline happened after the Asian financial crisis in 1997. Private airports accounted for 58.1% of the total registered airports in the country in 2010. (Table 1)
Out of the 85 national airports operating in the country in 2010, 38 or 44.7% are in Luzon, 22 or 25.9% are in the Visayas, and the remaining 25 or 29.4% are in Mindanao. Ten of them are international airports, five of which are in Luzon, two in the Visayas, and three in Mindanao. (Table 2)
Total passenger movement in the country’s airports increased from 19.9 million in 2001 to 52.1 million in 2011, increasing at an average rate of 10.1 % per annum.

The NCR has the busiest airports accounting for an average share of 19.4 million passengers or 62.2% of all passenger traffic in the country from 2001 to 2011. Very important therefore to improve the quality of services and decongest or possibly relocate the NAIA to ensure on-time departures. Maybe even making Raymart and Claudine friends again with the Tulfos?

Other busy airports are those in Region VII, Region VI and Region XI which accounted for average shares of 11.5%, 9.1% and 5.1%, respectively, of total passenger movement.

On the other hand, there is minimal passenger movement in the airports in CAR, ARMM, Region II, Region XII, Region I, and Region III with 0.0%, 0.01%, 0.03%, 0.04%, 0.05%, and 0.05% average shares, respectively. (Table 3.)
More than half (53.9%) of total passengers in the NCR airports in 2010 were domestic passengers. Indeed, we should also have more fun with domestic tourism!

PAL appears to be catering to visitors of the beautiful Chocolate Hills and the gentle tarsiers of Bohol with a 47.4% share of the passenger movement in Tagbilaran. However among the visitors to Boracay, Cebu Pacific is the favorite airline with 30.0% share of passenger movement in Caticlan, 57.4% in Iloilo, and 30.9% in Kalibo. Cebu Pacific also is the favorite of those who do business or wish to eat the delectable durian or visit the Pearl Farm in Davao, with a 50.9% share of passenger movement. (Table 3a).
Aircraft movement increased from 343,039 in 2001 to 501,117 in 2011 at an average rate of 3.9 % per annum. The NCR accounted for the biggest share of 41.4% of the total aircraft movement, followed by Region III, Region VII and Region VI which accounted for 14.9%, 11.2%, and 10.4%, respectively. (Table 4)
Meanwhile, the number of aircraft accidents increased from 15 in 2006 to 18 in 2009 but dropped to 14 cases in 2010. Most common causes of the accidents were either engine-related or crash landing, accounting for 19 and 10 cases respectively, out of a total number of 75 accidents. (Table 5.)

Table 1.Registered Airports, National and Private, 1976 to 2010

Year	Total	National*		Private**		Total
		Number	%	Number	%	%
1976	131	79	60.3%	52	39.7%	100.0%
1977	135	79	58.5%	56	41.5%	100.0%
1978	181	82	45.3%	99	54.7%	100.0%
1979	202	85	42.1%	117	57.9%	100.0%
1980	206	86	41.7%	120	58.3%	100.0%
1981	205	85	41.5%	120	58.5%	100.0%
1982	226	85	37.6%	141	62.4%	100.0%
1983	227	86	37.9%	141	62.1%	100.0%
1984	227	86	37.9%	141	62.1%	100.0%
1985	228	87	38.2%	141	61.8%	100.0%
1986	230	87	37.8%	143	62.2%	100.0%
1987	227	84	37.0%	143	63.0%	100.0%
1988	180	86	47.8%	94	52.2%	100.0%
1989	208	86	41.3%	122	58.7%	100.0%
1990	219	86	39.3%	133	60.7%	100.0%
1991	224	84	37.5%	140	62.5%	100.0%
1992	216	86	39.8%	130	60.2%	100.0%
1993	249	87	34.9%	162	65.1%	100.0%
1994	300	86	28.7%	214	71.3%	100.0%
1995	190	86	45.3%	104	54.7%	100.0%
1996	266	86	32.3%	180	67.7%	100.0%
1997	192	89	46.4%	103	53.6%	100.0%
1998	167	92	55.1%	75	44.9%	100.0%
1999	172	85	49.4%	87	50.6%	100.0%
2000	172	85	49.4%	87	50.6%	100.0%
2001	157	87	55.4%	70	44.6%	100.0%
2002	174	87	50.0%	87	50.0%	100.0%
2003	163	85	52.1%	78	47.9%	100.0%
2004	196	85	43.4%	111	56.6%	100.0%
2005	203	85	41.9%	118	58.1%	100.0%
2006	203	85	41.9%	118	58.1%	100.0%
2007	203	85	41.9%	118	58.1%	100.0%
2008	203	85	41.9%	118	58.1%	100.0%
2009	203	85	41.9%	118	58.1%	100.0%
2010	203	85	41.9%	118	58.1%	100.0%

Source: Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines.

*National airports are airports owned, operated and maintained by the Government.
**Private airports refer to airports that are not open to the public. They can be airports with memberships sold to specific individuals or airports that belong to private communities.

Table 2. Distribution of Airports By Classification , By Island Group, 2010

Classification	Luzon	Visayas	Mindanao	Total

International Airport*	5	2	3	10
Principal Airport Class 1 **	4	6	5	15
Principal Airport Class 2 ***	8	5	6	19
Community Airport ****	21	9	11	41
	38	22	25	85
	44.7%	25.9%	29.4%	100.0%

Source: Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines.

* International airports - are airports capable of handling international flights. Airports in this category include airports that currently have or or previously served international destinations.
** Principal airports Class 1 - are airports capable of serving jet aircraft with capacity of at least 100 seats.
*** Principal airports Class 2 - are airports capable of serving propeller aircraft with a capacity of at least 19 seats but less than 100.
**** Community airport - are airports that are used primarily for general aviation or non-commercial purposes.

Table 3. Distribution of Passenger Movement By Region, 2001 to 2011

REGION	2001		2002		2003		2004		2005		2006		2007		2008		2009		2010		2011		Weighted Average	% Share	Annual % Increase/Deacrease
	PASSENGER		PASSENGER		PASSENGER		PASSENGER		PASSENGER		PASSENGER		PASSENGER		PASSENGER		PASSENGER		PASSENGER		PASSENGER
	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.

TOTAL	19,895,475	100.00	20,057,431	100.00	18,311,510	100.00	23,269,203	100.00	24,666,889	100.00	26,654,039	100.00	34,162,666	100.00	35,406,365	100.00	41,040,754	100.00	47,367,824	100.00	52,075,941	100.00	31,173,463	100.0	10.1

NCR	12,806,628	64.37	12,987,980	64.75	13,138,535	71.75	15,428,521	66.30	16,485,178	66.83	18,229,221	68.39	20,693,746	60.57	22,253,158	62.85	24,108,554	58.74	27,321,120	57.68	29,779,126	57.18	19,384,706	62.2	8.8
CAR	8,923	0.04	14,244	0.07	14,490	0.08	19,368	0.08	19,711	0.08	18,352	0.07	15,751	0.05	9,805	0.03	2,279	0.01	1,784	0.00	1,341	0.00	11,459	0.0	-17.3
Region 1	109,818	0.55	187,162	0.93	101,304	0.55	136,616	0.59	123,116	0.50	132,901	0.50	158,866	0.47	215,006	0.61	178,226	0.43	195,151	0.41	191,712	0.37	157,262	0.5	5.7
Region 2	78,509	0.39	80,727	0.40	66,443	0.36	78,012	0.34	70,505	0.29	66,636	0.25	69,427	0.20	87,335	0.25	82,819	0.20	192,486	0.41	156,625	0.30	93,593	0.3	7.2
Region 3	11,825	0.06	34,516	0.17	34,414	0.19	10,744	0.05	8,859	0.04	513,252	1.93	703,262	2.06	244,292	0.69	228,968	0.56	12,528	0.03	6,003	0.01	164,424	0.5	-6.6
Region 4	254,640	1.28	219,038	1.09	258,661	1.41	339,448	1.46	351,656	1.43	363,387	1.36	475,247	1.39	626,438	1.77	877,532	2.14	1,100,190	2.32	1,257,448	2.41	556,699	1.8	17.3
Region 5	197,984	1.00	188,472	0.94	183,687	1.00	192,489	0.83	183,992	0.75	237,369	0.89	301,242	0.88	422,134	1.19	511,487	1.25	684,236	1.44	771,354	1.48	352,222	1.1	14.6
Region 6	1,661,235	8.35	1,694,246	8.45	1,686,102	9.21	2,033,186	8.74	2,132,689	8.65	2,512,074	9.42	2,941,707	8.61	3,197,154	9.03	3,740,718	9.11	4,680,468	9.88	4,918,843	9.45	2,836,220	9.1	11.5
Region 7	2,391,716	12.02	2,207,033	11.00	628,915	3.43	2,626,740	11.29	2,260,474	9.16	1,226,749	4.60	4,691,289	13.73	4,349,934	12.29	5,318,125	12.96	6,396,471	13.50	7,218,861	13.86	3,574,210	11.5	11.7
Region 8	322,491	1.62	329,829	1.64	308,060	1.68	306,444	1.32	344,650	1.40	421,884	1.58	542,041	1.59	318,438	0.90	998,301	2.43	1,032,760	2.18	1,124,963	2.16	549,987	1.8	13.3
Region 9	324,451	1.63	359,125	1.79	375,396	2.05	435,304	1.87	445,781	1.81	470,757	1.77	626,436	1.83	613,349	1.73	777,121	1.89	845,337	1.78	1,108,986	2.13	580,186	1.9	13.1
Region 10	406,070	2.04	469,495	2.34	387,847	2.12	409,171	1.76	464,641	1.88	609,241	2.29	723,257	2.12	960,866	2.71	1,200,796	2.93	1,507,930	3.18	1,671,915	3.21	801,021	2.6	15.2
Region 11	1,099,332	5.53	1,106,380	5.52	943,222	5.15	1,023,513	4.40	1,347,034	5.46	1,335,722	5.01	1,540,696	4.51	1,353,882	3.82	1,942,378	4.73	2,685,703	5.67	3,121,254	5.99	1,590,829	5.1	11.0
Region 12	117,744	0.59	63,292	0.32	46,409	0.25	63,848	0.27	87,090	0.35	125,715	0.47	127,236	0.37	104,543	0.30	199,133	0.49	219,104	0.46	192,017	0.37	122,376	0.4	5.0
CARAGA	100,579	0.51	106,874	0.53	127,374	0.70	150,560	0.65	321,042	1.30	383,448	1.44	538,218	1.58	631,282	1.78	865,288	2.11	482,625	1.02	482,697	0.93	380,908	1.2	17.0
ARMM	3,530	0.02	9,018	0.04	10,651	0.06	15,239	0.07	20,471	0.08	7,331	0.03	14,245	0.04	18,749	0.05	9,029	0.02	9,931	0.02	72,796	0.14	17,363	0.1	35.3

Source: Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines

Notes:
1. Passenger movement refers to a passenger boarding a plane or disembarking at an airport.
2. One arrival/one departure is counted as one movement.

Annual growth rate is computed by:

Table 3a. Distribution of Passenger Movement of Top Five Regions in 2010

AIRPORT	NUMBER	% DISTRIBUTION
PHILIPPINES	47,998,050

NCR	27,321,120	56.92
International	12,380,601	45.32
Domestic	14,736,124	53.94
G. Aviation	204,395	0.75

REGION VII	6,396,471	13.33
Dumaguete	363,021	5.68
PAL	160,022	44.08
Cebu Pacific	202,529	55.79
Air Phil.		0.00
G. Aviation	459	0.13
Military	11	0.00
Mactan	5,460,065	85.36
International	1,203,064	22.03
Domestic	4,206,651	77.04
G. Aviation	35,926	0.66
Military	14,424	0.26
Siquijor	86	0.00
G. Aviation	86	100.00
Tagbilaran	573,299	8.96
PAL	271,926	47.43
Cebu Pacific	186,283	32.49
Zest Air	114,267	19.93
G. Aviation	585	0.10
Military	238	0.04
Ubay
G. Aviation	-	-

REGION VI	4,680,468	9.75
Antique
G. Aviation	-	-
Bacolod	1,223,491	26.1
PAL	382,157	31.23
Cebu Pacific	551,240	45.05
Zest Air	72,762	5.95
Air Phil.	212,054	17.33
G. Aviation	5,278	0.43
Caticlan	623,545	13.32
Cebu Pacific	187,099	30.01
Air Phil.	143,104	22.95
Asian Spirit	-
Seair	127,793	20.49
Zest Air		0.00
G. Aviation	4,033	0.65
Military	49	0.01
No breakdown	161,467	25.90
Iloilo	1,581,304	33.79
PAL	375,158	23.72
Cebu Pacific	907,505	57.39
Air Phil.	216,032	13.66
Zest Air	82,609	5.22
G. Aviation	-
Kalibo (International)	203,174	4.34
PAL	37,636	18.52
Manila Air	17,872	8.80
Zest Air	98,845	48.65
China S. Air	4,873	2.40
Mandarin Airlines	1,505	0.74
Korean Air		0.00
Shanghai Airlines		0.00
China Air	42,443	20.89
Kalibo (Domestic)	845,114	18.06
PAL	307,488	36.38
Cebu Pacific	260,952	30.88
Air Phil.	22,155	2.62
Zest Air	163,777	19.38
G. Aviation	90,605	10.72
Military	137	0.02
Roxas	203,840	4.36
No breakdown	203,840	100.00

REGION XI	2,685,703	5.60
Allah Valley	-	-
Gen. San. Tambler	456,526	17.00
PAL	159936	35.03
PAL Express	-
Cebu Pacific	296228	64.89
G. Aviation	362	0.08
Military		0
Davao (International)	21,493	0.80
Silk Air	21,009	97.75
Sriwijaya Air	-
Merpati Air	449	2.09
Cebu Pacific	35	0.16
PL Wings Air		0.00
Davao (Domestic)	2,207,684	82.20
PAL	824,137	37.33
PAL Express		0.00
Cebu Pacific	1,123,380	50.88
Air Phil.	122,575	5.55
Zest Air	132,028	5.98
G. Aviation	5,564	0.25
Mati	-	-

REGION X	1,507,930	3.14
Cagayan de Oro	1,301,502	86.31
No breakdown	1,301,502
Camiguin	-	-
Ozamis	206,428	13.69
PAL	60,949	29.5
PAL Express	13862	6.7
Cebu Pacific	131,548	63.7
G. Aviation	69	0.0
Air Phil.	-

Source: Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines

Notes:
1. General Aviation refers to passenger and aircraft operation other than
commercial air transport operation or aerial work operation such as lessons on flying aircrafts.
2. Military passengers refer to passengers boarding or disembarking from military aircrafts.
3. There are no available breakdown of passenger movement by airline for international airports.

Table 4. Distribution of Aircraft Movement, By Region, 2001 to 2011

REGION	2001		2002		2003		2004		2005		2006		2007		2008		2009		2010		2011		Weighted Average	% Share	Annual % Increase/ Deacrease
	AIRCRAFT		AIRCRAFT		AIRCRAFT		AIRCRAFT		AIRCRAFT		AIRCRAFT		AIRCRAFT		AIRCRAFT		AIRCRAFT		AIRCRAFT		AIRCRAFT
	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.	Number	% Dist'n.

TOTAL	343,039	100.00	365,138	100.00	321,875	100.00	367,281	100.00	316,427	100.00	313,054	100.00	610,214	100.00	689,801	100.00	656,144	100.00	334,725	100.00	501,117	100.00	438,074	100.0	3.9

NCR	172,591	50.31	168,952	46.27	159,708	49.62	158,025	43.03	171,331	54.15	171913	54.91	188,799	30.94	205,246	29.75	222,788	33.95	118,764	35.48	255,154	50.92	181,206	41.4	4.0
CAR	904	0.26	1,948	0.53	2,116	0.66	1,826	0.50	1,896	0.60	1,896	0.61	1,484	0.24	1,492	0.22	1,546	0.24	547	0.16	471	0.09	1,466	0.3	-6.3
Region 1	4,204	1.23	4,658	1.28	5,438	1.69	4,762	1.30	4,320	1.37	4,364	1.39	10,368	1.70	35,120	5.09	26,476	4.04	5,437	1.62	10,514	2.10	10,515	2.4	9.6
Region 2	11,726	3.42	14,376	3.94	12,434	3.86	10,666	2.90	8,722	2.76	8,230	2.63	6,490	1.06	8,296	1.20	19,314	2.94	6,536	1.95	7,395	1.48	10,380	2.4	-4.5
Region 3	6,164	1.80	18,847	5.16	41,593	12.92	32,220	8.77	3,752	1.19	11,167	3.57	215,653	35.34	126,196	18.29	154,298	23.52	51,948	15.52	54,019	10.78	65,078	14.9	24.2
Region 4	11,630	3.39	9,278	2.54	8,686	2.70	10,499	2.86	12,177	3.85	11,228	3.59	14,312	2.35	22,926	3.32	19,726	3.01	11,494	3.43	13,746	2.74	13,246	3.0	1.7
Region 5	5,260	1.53	4,424	1.21	3,558	1.11	3,332	0.91	3,422	1.08	4,000	1.28	5,273	0.86	6,598	0.96	8,112	1.24	5,061	1.51	5,087	1.02	4,921	1.1	-0.3
Region 6	39,928	11.64	48,372	13.25	41,598	12.92	50,128	13.65	42,504	13.43	41,130	13.14	46,360	7.60	52,398	7.60	55,476	8.45	46,303	13.83	34,979	6.98	45,380	10.4	-1.3
Region 7	45,872	13.37	51,572	14.12	8,756	2.72	58,209	15.85	29,502	9.32	21,964	7.02	75,625	12.39	54,538	7.91	77,316	11.78	48,056	14.36	69,383	13.85	49,163	11.2	4.2
Region 8	8,442	2.46	9,486	2.60	7,108	2.21	6,764	1.84	4,944	1.56	5,576	1.78	6,988	1.15	6,958	1.01	14,496	2.21	11,479	3.43	15,676	3.13	8,902	2.0	6.4
Region 9	10,288	3.00	8,147	2.23	9,350	2.90	9,428	2.57	8,256	2.61	6,650	2.12	8,192	1.34	9,862	1.43	13,022	1.98	5,549	1.66	8,763	1.75	8,864	2.0	-1.6
Region 10	6,346	1.85	6,522	1.79	5,290	1.64	5,366	1.46	5,732	1.81	6,002	1.92	7,314	1.20	7,602	1.10	11,680	1.78	7,352	2.20	8,095	1.62	7,027	1.6	2.5
Region 11	14,608	4.26	13,108	3.59	11,420	3.55	10,540	2.87	12,686	4.01	13,956	4.46	14,962	2.45	16,426	2.38	19,302	2.94	11,373	3.40	13,152	2.62	13,776	3.1	-1.0
Region 12	1,640	0.48	1,550	0.42	920	0.29	1,130	0.31	1,676	0.53	1,970	0.63	1,998	0.33	1,622	0.24	4,076	0.62	1,579	0.47	1,582	0.32	1,795	0.4	-0.4
CARAGA	3,074	0.90	3,262	0.89	3,090	0.96	3,296	0.90	4,219	1.33	2,318	0.74	5,546	0.91	133,659	19.38	7,876	1.20	3,012	0.90	2,653	0.53	15,637	3.6	-1.5
ARMM	362	0.11	636	0.17	810	0.25	1,090	0.30	1,288	0.41	690	0.22	850	0.14	862	0.12	640	0.10	235	0.07	448	0.09	719	0.2	2.2

Source: Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines

Notes:
1. Aircraft movement refers to aircraft take-off or landing at an airport.
2. For purposes of aircraft traffic, one arrival/one departure is counted as one movement.

Annual growth rate is computed by:

Table 5. Comparative Statistics on Aircraft Accidents, 2006 to 2010

Type of Accident	Number of Accidents					Total
Type of Accident	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010

Total	15	11	17	18	14	75

Aircraft swerved	-	-	-	1	−	1
Bounced landing	-	-	-	2	−	2
Crash landing	3	1	-	4	2	10
Crash into terrain	-	-	-	1	−	1
Engine related	3	2	7	3	4
Engine fire	-	-	-	1	−
Engine failure	-	2	-	1	3
Engine quit/crash landing	3	-	3	1	−
Engine quit	-	-	4	-	1

Inflight incapacitation	-	-	-	1	−	1
None wheel/gear collapsed	1	-	-	2	−	3
Overshoot	1	-	2	2	−	5
None wheel/gear collapsed Overshoot					1	1
Severe turbulence during landing	-	-	-	1	−	1
Stalled during take off	-	-	-	1	1	2
Ditching	-	-	2	-	−	2
Forced landing	-	-	2	-	1	3
Runway excursion	-	-	1	-	−	1
Unrecovered hard landing	-	-	1	-	−	1
Depressurization	-	-	1	-	−	1
Ditched into the sea	-	-	1	-	1	2
Hard landing	1	-	-	-	1	2
Broken damaged left wing	1	-	-	-	−	1
Belly landing propeler strike	2	-	-	-	−	2
Busted tire	1	-	-	-	−	1
Tail strike	2	-	-	-	−	2
Premature Touchdown					1	1
Landing ground	-	2	-	-	−	2
Mid air collision	-	5	-	-	−	5
Stalled and crash landed	-	1	-	-	1	2
Dynamic Roll ver	-	-	-	-	1	1

Source: Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines/AAIIB, Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC)

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Source: Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines.

Source: Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines.

Source of basic data: Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines

Prepared by: Under the Guidance of:

SEVERA B. DE COSTO ROMULO A. VIROLA
Statistical Coordination Officer Secretary General
Statistical Classification and Standards Division
Email: sb.decosto@nscb.gov.ph
Tel No.: (+632) 890-3135/ 897-1773

LOUELLA R. RAGOS
Statistical Coordination Officer
Statistical Classification and Standards Division
Email: lr.ragos@nscb.gov.ph
Tel No.: (+632) 890-3135/ 897-1773

GLENDA P. RECTO
Statistical Coordination Officer
Statistical Classification and Standards Division
Email: gp.recto@nscb.gov.ph
Tel No.: (+632) 890-3135/ 897-1773

Assisted by:

Simonette A. Nisperos
Information Systems Analyst

Sonny U. Gutierrez
Statistical Coordination Officer

The authors also acknowledge the assistance provided by Noel Nepomuceno and Mr. Jefferson Tandoc of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP).

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