AirSWIFT, the Philippines’ initially boutique airline, has kicked off a new route — Manila to Romblon!
For fairly some time, the only way to reach Romblon is by sea. It became a lot easier to access when Romblon Airport (also acknowledged as Tugdan Airport or Tablas Airport) in the municipality of Alcantara opened and standard flights begun functioning to the province. Nonetheless, the pandemic set a halt to its operations. The sea, as soon as once again, turned the only manner of professional passenger transportation offered.
Speedy forward to 24 September 2022: AirSWIFT experienced its inaugural flight! This helps make touring involving Manila and Romblon much more rapidly, a lot easier, and additional practical again. No want to burn up numerous hours on a ferry. This cuts the journey to about an hour.
As of this producing, listed here are the information:
- Terminal in Manila: NAIA Terminal 4
- Terminal in Romblon: Tugdan Airport (Romblon Airport) in Alcantara, Tablas Island
- Vacation time: 1 hour and 15 minutes
- Plan: Tuesdays and Saturdays (2x a 7 days)
Ideal now, AirSWIFT has an introductory promo covering flights to Romblon. If you’re flying ahead of the yr finishes, you can snag tickets for only P3,819, all-in. Far more information in the graphic under:
AirSWIFT has four kinds of airfare offers:
- Promo: This offers limitless absolutely free rebooking and 7kg have-on baggage. Even so, due to the fact it’s a promo, minimal seats are available for this package.
- Essential: This enables rebooking 5x for cost-free, but refunding and rerouting are not permitted. No look at-in baggage allowance, but you have no cost 7kg for carry-on baggage.
- Price: This has 10kg verify-in baggage allowance on prime of the 7kg carry-on baggage. You can do rebooking 5X for no cost, but you simply cannot do rerouting.
- Quality: This has the identical perks as the Worth package deal BUT with a test-in baggage allowance of 20kg rather of just 10kg.
Observe: When availing of the free of charge rebooking, you must maintain in thoughts that fare variance may well implement.
AirSWIFT makes use of the ATR 42-600, a turboprop regional airliner manufactured by the Franco-Italian plane producer ATR (Avions de Transportation Régional). It seats up to 50 passengers only, which usually means significantly less fuss and strain at the airport, even through test-in and boarding.
For a lot more details about AirSWIFT and to verify out their flight plan and fares, pay a visit to www.air-swift.com.
Right here are the major Romblon hotels and resorts on Agoda. Take note of the place of these attributes mainly because the province is an archipelago and the homes down below are in numerous islands.
Prepared by: Asta Alvarez
Pics by: Yosh Dimen
Disc: We were lucky and honored to be invited by the Division of Tourism (DOT) – MIMAROPA to rejoice the occasion with AirSWIFT and the men and women of Romblon. The celebration and succeeding tour was arranged by AirSWIFT.


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