General Santos International Airport

ICAO RPMR6.0572°N 125.0962°E154 m / 505 ftLarge airport

General Santos International Airport (IATA: GES, ICAO: RPMR) is a large airport in General Santos, South Cotabato Province, Philippines. It opened in 1996. It has one runway, 3,227 m (10,587 ft) long, concrete. It is operated by Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines. In 2022 it handled 769 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1996–1996

1996

OpenedGeneral Santos International Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

17/35173° / 353° · LIT

LENGTH3,227 m10,587 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2010–2022

478K

493K

611K

689K

715K

592K

839K

921K

1.0M

244K

177K

769K

101112131415171819202122

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

CEBMactan Cebu International AirportPhilippines · PAL Express, Cebu Pacific489 km304 mi ILOIloilo International AirportPhilippines · Cebu Pacific603 km375 mi MNLNinoy Aquino International AirportPhilippines · Philippine Airlines, PAL Express, Cebu Pacific1,040 km646 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from GES. From the Wikipedia article “General Santos International Airport” (revision of 8 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

3 airlines · destinations from GES

Passenger3

5JCebu Pacific3 2PPAL Express2 PRPhilippine Airlines1

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers769K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#927of 3,974 · #291 Asia · #14 PH Longest runway3,227 m10,587 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#783of 29,858 · #232 Asia · #3 PH Elevation154 m505 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=26,947of 43,403 · =1,482 Asia · =24 PH AgeOpened 19962026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=10,634of 15,079 · =510 Asia · =18 PH Runways11 · 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

APPAPP119.100

RDORDO680.250

TWRTWR118.400