Iloilo International Airport (ILO) — International Flights

Iloilo International Airport (ILO) sa Cabatuan ang gateway ng Western Visayas — around 2.9 million passengers nung 2024. Hub ng PAL, Cebu Pacific, at AirAsia. May international service papunta Singapore (Scoot launched April 2025), Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Taipei. Para sa Iloilo-diaspora at OFW, mas convenient kaysa transit sa MNL. Heto ang quick-reference for OFW lane at terminal guide ngayong 2026.

Quick facts

2,900,000 passengers used ILO in 2024 (CAAP). The airport carries ICAO code RPVI, serves Cabatuan / Iloilo, and has 7 international corridors catalogued on this site. 7 corridors are catalogued from ILO, 5 of them with a nonstop carrier on file.

The headline throughput figure is 2,900,000 passengers in 2024 (CAAP). Throughput is a useful proxy for exactly two things and misleading for everything else. It predicts queue length — security, immigration and check-in scale with people, not with runways — and it predicts how much slack the airport has when weather or a technical delay compresses a bank of departures. It does not predict how many international destinations you can reach, which depends on the route licences carriers hold; nor does it predict fares, which track competition on the individual pair. A busy airport with one carrier on your route gives you queues without price competition. International to SIN (Scoot launched Apr 2025), HKG, KUL, BKK, TPE; balikbayan flows to/from Iloilo diaspora.

• Codes: IATA ILO · ICAO RPVI
• City: Cabatuan / Iloilo, Western Visayas (Region VI)
• Hub airlines: Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific, Philippines AirAsia
• International service: Yes

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Popular international routes from ILO

7 international corridors are catalogued from ILO, 5 of them with a nonstop carrier on file and about 24 one-way departures a week in total. 3 carriers base operations here: Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific and Philippines AirAsia. 2,900,000 passengers used the airport in 2024, per CAAP.

Ranked by weekly frequency, the top of the ILO board looks like this:

• ILO → SIN (Singapore) — Cebu Pacific and Scoot, about 11/week, 3.7 h block.
• ILO → HKG (Hong Kong) — Cathay Pacific, about 4/week, 2.7 h block.
• ILO → KUL (Kuala Lumpur) — AirAsia, about 3/week, 3.5 h block.
• ILO → BKK (Bangkok) — Thai AirAsia, about 3/week, 3.7 h block.
• ILO → TPE (Taipei) — Cebu Pacific, about 3/week, 2.5 h block.

When two routings are on the table, compare weekly frequency before distance. A corridor with many weekly departures gives the airline somewhere to put you when a flight goes wrong; a twice-weekly corridor can turn a three-hour technical delay into a three-day wait, because the next seat is genuinely days away.

OFW + balikbayan tips

3 of the 7 corridors catalogued from ILO are classified as migrant-worker routes. Departure clearance for a worker is a Department of Migrant Workers process; the airline controls only the seat and the baggage allowance. 7 corridors are catalogued from ILO, 5 of them with a nonstop carrier on file.

Uplift-bearing carriers on the ILO board:

• Cathay Pacific — 30 kg economy base plus 10 kg programme uplift = 40 kg.

The uplift is granted at check-in against an OEC or OFW Pass, so it is documentation that unlocks it, not the fare you bought — and that is where it fails. It does not attach to a low-cost bags-free base fare, because there is no base allowance for it to add to. It does not follow you onto a separately ticketed feeder flight. On a codeshare it is the operating carrier’s rules that apply, not those of the airline whose code is printed on the ticket. And it is per passenger: pooling it across a family only works where the airline publishes a pooling rule. Confirm the figure with the carrier at booking, because excess bought at the ILO counter is priced per kilo.

Mga taga-Iloilo, Antique, Capiz na OFW — pa-Gulf mostly via MNL transit pa rin. Pero kapag pa-Singapore (Scoot) o Hong Kong (Cathay), direct from ILO ay realistic option. May DMW counter sa international departures area; dalhin OEC / OFW Pass + contract copy. Balikbayan flows from Iloilo diaspora (US, Canada, Australia) maganda ang volume tuwing Pasko. Porter fees: PHP 100-200 per box.

Terminals & getting there

3 carriers are based at ILO (RPVI), serving Cabatuan / Iloilo in Western Visayas (Region VI). Protection at this transfer comes from the ticket, not the terminal: one ticket and the carrier re-accommodates you, two and you own the reclaim, the re-check and the risk.

Terminal assignments and ground-transport prices change without much notice, so treat any published figure — including ours — as something to re-check on the airport’s own channels the week you travel. What does not change is the structure of the risk. If your onward flight departs from a different terminal, the connecting time you need is the airport’s published minimum plus the inter-terminal transfer, and on a separate ticket you also need immigration, baggage reclaim and a fresh check-in inside that window. Build the buffer against the worst leg, not the average one. The single cheapest insurance available on a ILO connection is booking both legs on one ticket, which converts a missed connection from your problem into the airline’s.

Single terminal — domestic at international sa magkaibang wings. International (Scoot, Cathay, AirAsia) sa kanan, domestic sa kaliwa. Pamasahe via PUV from Iloilo City: PHP 50-100, mga 30-45 mins. Taxi: PHP 250-400. May airport-shuttle van na regular schedule. Parking PHP 50/hr daytime.

All catalogued routes from ILO (8)

• ILO → SIN — Singapore
• ILO → HKG — Hong Kong
• ILO → BKK — Bangkok
• ILO → KUL — Kuala Lumpur
• ILO → TPE — Taipei
• ILO → DOH — Doha
• ILO → DXB — Dubai
• ILO → ICN — Seoul

7 international corridors are catalogued from ILO, 5 of them with a nonstop carrier on file and about 24 one-way departures a week in total. 3 carriers base operations here: Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific and Philippines AirAsia. 2,900,000 passengers used the airport in 2024, per CAAP.

A connection-only corridor is not a worse corridor, it is a different contract. Bought as one ticket, the airlines own the transfer: the bag is tagged through, the published minimum connecting time is the buffer that protects you, and a missed connection caused by the first flight is theirs to fix. Bought as two tickets, you own all of it — bag reclaim, a second check-in, and no protection if leg one runs late. The price gap between the two forms is usually small out of ILO; the risk gap is not. Where the onward leg is long-haul, the through-ticket also preserves your checked-baggage allowance across the whole journey, including an OFW uplift that would otherwise not apply to a separately ticketed domestic feeder.

FAQ

7 corridors sit from ILO behind the answers below, which are drawn from this site’s own route, carrier and fare files rather than from airline marketing. 7 corridors are catalogued from ILO, 5 of them with a nonstop carrier on file.

Being specific about provenance is the only way a page like this earns trust, so: every figure above is read from a file in this project rather than from an airline’s marketing page. Frequencies are schedule estimates compiled from public timetable snapshots — Frequencies are estimates from public schedule data; flight hours are scheduled block times. Indirect-only corridors flagged where no nonstop exists. Flight hours are scheduled block times, gate to gate, not time in the air. Fares are cache floors: the lowest one-way the Travelpayouts feed returned for a pair at the moment it was polled, for one date and one fare class, excluding checked baggage where the carrier sells it separately. Baggage allowances and OFW uplifts come from the carrier programme records in this project and are the figure to confirm at booking, because an airline can change a programme without changing a timetable. Where a number is missing we leave it out rather than estimate it.

Anong airlines ang international sa ILO? Scoot (Singapore), Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong), AirAsia (KL), Thai AirAsia (Bangkok), Cebu Pacific (Taipei).

ILO-SIN — kailan launch? Scoot launched ILO-Singapore around April 2025, around 4-5× weekly.

Pamasahe airport to Iloilo City? Taxi PHP 250-400, jeepney/PUV PHP 50-100, around 30-45 mins.

OFW lane ba may sa ILO? Oo, may DMW counter sa international wing. Dalhin OFW Pass + contract.

How many international corridors does ILO have on this site? 7 corridors are catalogued from ILO, of which 2 have no nonstop carrier on file and are flown as connections, in most cases through Manila.

Which airlines are based at ILO? 3 carriers are recorded as basing operations at ILO: Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific and Philippines AirAsia. The airport’s ICAO code is RPVI and it serves Western Visayas (Region VI).

How busy is ILO? 2,900,000 passengers used ILO in 2024, per CAAP. Throughput predicts queueing time and how much recovery capacity the airport has on a disrupted day; it does not predict fares, which follow competition on each individual route.

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Updated 9 May 2026. FlyPilipinas is a 14-person Filipino editorial team; content is researched and edited by Filipino travel and OFW specialists. About the author →.