Jolo Airport guide

Jolo Airport (IATA: JOL, ICAO: RPMJ) is the only airport in Sulu province, in the southwestern Philippines. It sits at Barangay Bus-Bus on Jolo Island, at an elevation of 36 metres. Locals also know it by its Tausug name, Lapagan sin Tiyanggi.

The field began in the 1940s as a wartime staging point for American fighter aircraft, with a runway of about 1,000 metres. President Ferdinand Marcos had it extended in 1965. A rehabilitation project that lengthened the runway and added a terminal was awarded in 2008, and the rehabilitated airport was inaugurated on 14 December 2009. A new terminal building was turned over on 11 June 2018.

The airport has one asphalt runway, 09/27, listed at 1,845 metres. The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines runs the airside, while the Bangsamoro Airport Authority handles the landside. Scheduled service is domestic and light: Bangsamoro Airways links Jolo with Cotabato and Zamboanga, and Leading Edge flies to Zamboanga. The latest published traffic figures, from 2008, show 18,749 passengers and 862 aircraft movements.