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b0101
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 Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:18 am Post subject: Caticlan (Boracay) airport closed? |
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I'm going to Boracay in early Feb, flying into Cebu. From what I understand, due to new flight regulations at the Caticlan airport, the only airline currently flying there is SEAIR. Is this correct?
I know the other option is flying into Kalibo and taking a bus. Has anyone done this?
Anyone have additional info on this? |
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bbb0777
Joined: 24 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I have not yet been to Boracay, but several weeks ago came to the same conclusion after researching: only SEAIR currently flies to Caticilan. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:42 am Post subject: Re: Caticlan (Boracay) airport closed? |
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| b0101 wrote: |
I'm going to Boracay in early Feb, flying into Cebu. From what I understand, due to new flight regulations at the Caticlan airport, the only airline currently flying there is SEAIR. Is this correct?
I know the other option is flying into Kalibo and taking a bus. Has anyone done this?
Anyone have additional info on this? |
Yes, the only airline flying into Caticlan is SeaAir. the reason is that a couple of the others skidded their a319s off the end of a wet runway so it was closed to all but the small LET17s that SeaAir flies and a few of the Dash 7/8s that are rated for STOL.
Flying into Kalibo means taking a 2 hour van ride (V-hire in the local terminology) from there to the pier at Caticlan for the 20 minute banka ride over to Boracay. |
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I-am-me
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Hermit Kingdom
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| Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:03 am Post subject: |
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| I took van from Kalibo to Caticlan. The highway is very good so its a comfortable ride. I didnt see much scenery since got in at night, but if you arrive during the day, it might be a nice drive. |
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ZenMoto
Joined: 24 Jan 2008
Location: Seoul / Seocho
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| Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 5:29 am Post subject: |
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| We flew Cebu Pacific Air from Manila to Kalibo and they had a free bus to take us to Caticlan... Then you take a tuk tuk to the boat dock then you take the boat to Boracay and then you take a tuk tuk to your hotel... It's a big production... This was a problem for us as our flight from Kalibo back to Manila was early in the morning... We actaully left Boracay the night before and hired a car in Cataclan to take us to Kalibo and we stayed at some really strange place there for only one night so that we didn't have to wake @ 4:00 AM to make our flight... We had heard that the Cataclan airport was closed because the runway was too small for the planes that they where bringing in... They had 3 crashes inside of 6 months and got shut down. |
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