Bancasi Airport

ICAO RPME8.9515°N 125.4788°E43 m / 141 ftMedium airport

Bancasi Airport (IATA: BXU, ICAO: RPME) is a medium airport in Butuan, Butuan City, Philippines. It has one runway, 2,096 m (6,877 ft) long, concrete. It is operated by Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines. In 2022 it handled 737 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 2007–2007

26 OCT 2007

DisasterPhilippine Airlines Flight 475.No deaths

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

12/30117° / 297° · LIT

LENGTH2,096 m6,877 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2010–2022

383K

385K

524K

415K

514K

619K

681K

758K

736K

174K

265K

737K

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Routes

2 destinations · 1 country

Year-round2

CEBMactan Cebu International AirportPhilippines · Cebgo, PAL Express, Cebu Pacific223 km139 mi MNLNinoy Aquino International AirportPhilippines · PAL Express, Cebu Pacific786 km488 mi

Most destinationsPAL Express 2Cebu Pacific 2Cebgo 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BXU. From the Wikipedia article “Bancasi Airport” (revision of 10 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers737K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#942of 3,974 · #299 Asia · #15 PH Longest runway2,096 m6,877 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#3,651of 29,823 · #1,057 Asia · #22 PH Elevation43 m141 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=35,504of 43,341 · =2,141 Asia · #60 PH Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =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

1 channels

TWRTWR123.200