AirSWIFT, the Philippines’ very first boutique airline, has kicked off a new route — Manila to Romblon!
For rather some time, the only way to access Romblon is by sea. It became simpler to reach when Romblon Airport (also identified as Tugdan Airport or Tablas Airport) in the municipality of Alcantara opened and regular flights commenced functioning to the province. Even so, the pandemic place a halt to its operations. The sea, when once again, became the only method of commercial passenger transportation readily available.
Rapidly forward to 24 September 2022: AirSWIFT experienced its inaugural flight! This can make traveling in between Manila and Romblon a lot quicker, less complicated, and much more handy yet again. No have to have to melt away quite a few hrs on a ferry. This cuts the journey to approximately an hour.
As of this creating, right here are the specifics:
- Terminal in Manila: NAIA Terminal 4
- Terminal in Romblon: Tugdan Airport (Romblon Airport) in Alcantara, Tablas Island
- Vacation time: 1 hour and 15 minutes
- Agenda: Tuesdays and Saturdays (2x a week)
Ideal now, AirSWIFT has an introductory promo masking flights to Romblon. If you’re flying before the year ends, you can snag tickets for only P3,819, all-in. A lot more information in the picture under:
AirSWIFT has four varieties of airfare packages:
- Promo: This provides endless totally free rebooking and 7kg carry-on baggage. Even so, due to the fact it is a promo, confined seats are offered for this package.
- Simple: This allows rebooking 5x for no cost, but refunding and rerouting are not permitted. No test-in baggage allowance, but you have no cost 7kg for carry-on baggage.
- Price: This has 10kg look at-in baggage allowance on top rated of the 7kg carry-on baggage. You can do rebooking 5X for free of charge, but you simply cannot do rerouting.
- Quality: This has the identical benefits as the Benefit package BUT with a verify-in baggage allowance of 20kg instead of just 10kg.
Observe: When availing of the free rebooking, you ought to continue to keep in brain that fare distinction may perhaps use.
AirSWIFT takes advantage of the ATR 42-600, a turboprop regional airliner produced by the Franco-Italian plane producer ATR (Avions de Transportation Régional). It seats up to 50 passengers only, which means fewer fuss and stress at the airport, even for the duration of examine-in and boarding.
For far more info about AirSWIFT and to check out their flight schedule and fares, pay a visit to www.air-swift.com.
In this article are the best Romblon lodges and resorts on Agoda. Get notice of the locale of these attributes since the province is an archipelago and the homes down below are in many islands.
Written by: Asta Alvarez
Photographs by: Yosh Dimen
Disc: We ended up lucky and honored to be invited by the Office of Tourism (DOT) – MIMAROPA to celebrate the event with AirSWIFT and the people today of Romblon. The occasion and succeeding tour was organized by AirSWIFT.


