Cauayan Airport

Cauayan Airport Paliparan ng Cauayan Pagtayaban ti Cauayan
IATA: CYZ – ICAO: RPUY
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Air Transportation Office
Serves		Cauayan City
Location		Barangay San Fermin, Cauayan City
Elevation AMSL		61 m / 200 ft
Coordinates		16°55′47.50″N 121°45′10.93″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
17/35	2,096	6,875	Concrete

Cauayan Airport (Filipino: Paliparan ng Cauayan, Ilokano: Pagtayaban ti Cauayan) (IATA: CYZ, ICAO: RPUY) is an airport serving the general area of Cauayan City, located in Isabela province in the Philippines. It is one of three commercially airports in Isabela, the other being Palanan Airport in the town of Palanan and Maconacon Airport in the town of Maconacon. It is classified as a secondary airport, or a minor commercial domestic airport, by the Air Transportation Office, a body of the Department of Transportation and Communications that is responsible for the operations of not only this airport but also of all other airports in the Philippines except the major international airports.

Between 1999 and 2008, the airport hosted no commercial flights. Proposal were made to reintroduce commercial service the airport, such as an independent Manila-Cauayan route, as well as a route further on to Tuguegarao Airport in Tuguegarao City. After almost a decade of not hosting commercial service, Cauayan Airport re-opened to commercial traffic on August 15, 2008 using PAL Express aircraft, marking the return of Philippine Airlines to Cauayan, having stopped its services to the city in 1994.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Cebu Pacific	Manila
Sky Pasada	Baguio, Maconacon, Palanan
Cyclone Airways	Palanan, Maconacon

Incidents and accidents

Cauayan Airport was the airport of origin and destination for two fatal incidents in Philippine aviation: Philippine Airlines Flight 215 en route to Manila and Asian Spirit Flight 100 en route from Manila. Notably, it was Asian Spirit Flight 100 that forced the closure of the Manila-Cauayan route in 1999.