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Mactan Cebu International Airport

Cebu City/Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines

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RPVM

Elevation

31 ft

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The Essence of Mactan Cebu International Airport

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Location

Cebu City/Lapu-Lapu City · CEB · Philippines

Connectivity

49 routes · 29 destinations

Position

10.309°, 123.980° · 31 ft elev.

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The Philippines' second busiest international gateway.

Opened

1962

Location

Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines

Mactan Cebu International Airport (IATA: CEB, ICAO: RPVM) is the second busiest airport in the Philippines, serving the Visayas region and the greater Metro Cebu area. It is situated on Mactan Island in Lapu-Lapu City, adjacent to Cebu City, and handles millions of domestic and international passengers annually. The airport is managed by GMR Megawide Cebu Airport Corporation (GMCAC) under a public-private partnership concession. It serves as a key hub for Cebu Pacific, the Philippines' largest low-cost carrier, and offers connections to numerous Asian destinations as well as domestic routes across the archipelago. A modern Terminal 2 opened in 2018, significantly expanding the airport's capacity and improving passenger facilities. The airport plays a vital role in supporting Cebu's tourism, trade, and economic activity.

Terminals

The airport operates two terminals: the older Terminal 1 for international flights and the newer Terminal 2, opened in 2018, serving domestic and select international carriers.

Getting to & from

Ground transport options include taxis, ride-hailing services, hotel shuttles, and jeepneys, with connections via the Marcelo Fernan Bridge and Mactan-Cebu Bridge to Cebu City.

Airlines here

Major airlines operating here include Cebu Pacific, Philippine Airlines, AirAsia, and numerous international carriers connecting to destinations across Asia and the Middle East.

Notable facts

›Terminal 2, inaugurated in July 2018, was designed with a tropical aesthetic and has a capacity of 8 million passengers annually.
›The airport is named after Mactan Island, the historic site of the Battle of Mactan in 1521.
›GMCAC won the concession in 2014 in one of the Philippines' landmark airport privatization deals.
›It is the primary gateway to Cebu, one of the Philippines' top tourist destinations, including Mactan's beach resorts.
›The airport has an annual combined capacity of approximately 12.5 million passengers across both terminals.

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Route map (28 destinations)

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Airlines serving this airport

Routes

CEB → BCD5J · 320 ATR

CEB → BXU5J · 319

CEB → CGM5J · ATR

CEB → CGY5J · ATR 320 319

CEB → CRK5J · 319

CEB → DGT5J · ATR

CEB → DPL5J · ATR

CEB → DVO5J · 320 319

CEB → GES5J · 320

CEB → HKG5J · 320

CEB → IAO5J · ATR

CEB → ICN5J · 320

CEB → ILO5J · 319 320

CEB → KLO5J · 320

CEB → LGP5J · ATR

CEB → MNL5J · 319 320 330 ATR

CEB → MPH5J · ATR

CEB → OZC5J · ATR

CEB → PAG5J · ATR

CEB → PPS5J · 320

CEB → PUS5J · 320

CEB → SIN5J · 320

CEB → SUG5J · ATR

CEB → TAC5J · ATR 319

CEB → USU5J · ATR

CEB → ZAM5J · 319

CEB → ICN7C · 737

CEB → PUS7C · 737

CEB → PUSBX · 320 321

CEB → HKGCX · 333 77W 343

CEB → MNLDG · 320

CEB → ICNKE · 744

CEB → PUSKE · 73H

CEB → ICNLJ · 738

CEB → DVOMI · 320

CEB → SINMI · 320 738

CEB → ICNOZ · 321 763

CEB → MNLPQ · 320

CEB → HKGPR · 330 340

CEB → ICNPR · 321

CEB → MNLPR · 320

CEB → NRTPR · 321 330

CEB → POMPX · 738

CEB → DVOSQ · 320

CEB → SINSQ · 320 738

CEB → SINTR · 320

CEB → ICNZ2 · 320

CEB → KULZ2 · 320

CEB → MNLZ2 · 319 320

Aircraft operating here

Airbus A32024 routes Aerospatiale/Alenia ATR 42-60014 routes Airbus A3199 routes Airbus A3214 routes Boeing 737-8004 routes Airbus A3303 routes Boeing 7372 routes Airbus A330-3001 routes Boeing 777-300ER1 routes Airbus A340-3001 routes Boeing 747-4001 routes 73H1 routes

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Encyclopaedia

Mactan–Cebu International Airport (MCIA) is the main international airport serving Cebu and is the main gateway to the Central Visayas region in the Philippines. Located on a 797-hectare (1,970-acre) site in Lapu-Lapu City on Mactan island, it is the second busiest airport in the Philippines. Opened on April 27, 1966, the airport serves as a hub for Philippine Airlines, and as an operating base for Cebu Pacific, Philippines AirAsia, and Sunlight Air.

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