LAO

Laoag International Airport

ICAO RPLI18.1751°N 120.5310°E8 m / 25 ftLarge airport
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Laoag International Airport
Alaric A. Yanos · Public domain · Commons

Laoag International Airport (IATA: LAO, ICAO: RPLI) is a large airport in Laoag City, Ilocos Norte Province, Philippines. It has one runway, 2,780 m (9,120 ft) long, concrete. It is operated by Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines. In 2022 it handled 78 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Laoag Airport Terminal
01/19005° / 185° · LIT
LENGTH2,780 m9,120 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2010–2022
177K
170K
188K
243K
197K
205K
204K
161K
143K
36K
6K
78K
101112131415171819202122

Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LAO. From the Wikipedia article “Laoag International Airport” (revision of 29 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

3 airlines · destinations from LAO
Passenger3
5JCebu Pacific12PPAL Express1SPSky Pasada1

Former hub of Laoag International Airlines.

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from LAO. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers78K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,909of 3,974 · #616 Asia · #29 PHLongest runway2,780 m9,120 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,699of 29,858 · =508 Asia · #6 PHElevation8 m25 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=40,896of 43,403 · =2,845 Asia · =143 PHRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =185 Asia · =3 PH
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

3 channels
A/DAPP122.300
RDORDO124.000
TWRTWR118.100