Kalibo International Airport (KLO) — International Flights

Kalibo International Airport (KLO) ang Boracay gateway — around 1.2 million passengers, hub ng PAL, Cebu Pacific, at AirAsia. International service to Seoul (Incheon), Taipei, Hong Kong, at Hangzhou (Loong Air). Tourism-heavy ang traffic — mas konti ang OFW share. Heto ang terminal guide at popular routes ngayong 2026.

Quick facts

1,200,000 passengers used KLO in 2023 (CAAP). The airport carries ICAO code RPVK, serves Kalibo, and has 6 international corridors catalogued on this site. 6 corridors are catalogued from KLO, 4 of them with a nonstop carrier on file.

The headline throughput figure is 1,200,000 passengers in 2023 (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. Boracay gateway; international to ICN, TPE, HGH (Loong Air), HKG; tourism-led, low OFW share.

• Codes: IATA KLO · ICAO RPVK
• City: Kalibo, Western Visayas (Region VI)
• Hub airlines: Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific, Philippines AirAsia
• International service: Yes

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Popular international routes from KLO

6 international corridors are catalogued from KLO, 4 of them with a nonstop carrier on file and about 16 one-way departures a week in total. 3 carriers base operations here: Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific and Philippines AirAsia. 1,200,000 passengers used the airport in 2023, per CAAP.

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

• KLO → ICN (Seoul) — RF and Philippine Airlines, about 7/week, 4.3 h block.
• KLO → TPE (Taipei) — Cebu Pacific, about 3/week, 2.3 h block.
• KLO → HKG (Hong Kong) — Cathay Pacific, about 3/week, 2.5 h block.
• KLO → PUS (Busan) — Jin Air, about 3/week, 4.5 h block.
• KLO → SIN (Singapore) — no nonstop carrier catalogued, frequency not held, 3.7 h block.

Distance is the wrong first filter between two routings; weekly frequency is the right one. 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

0 of the 6 corridors catalogued from KLO 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. 6 corridors are catalogued from KLO, 4 of them with a nonstop carrier on file.

Transferring at KLO

3 carriers base operations at KLO: Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific and Philippines AirAsia. A domestic-to-international transfer here is protected only when both legs sit on one ticket.

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 KLO connection is booking both legs on one ticket, which converts a missed connection from your problem into the airline’s.

Mga taga-Aklan, Antique na OFW — mostly via MNL/CEB transit pa rin para sa Gulf at long-haul. International service sa KLO ay tourism-driven (Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong) hindi OFW. Pero balikbayan flow papunta Boracay/Caticlan strong tuwing peak season. Porter fees: PHP 100-200 per box. Tip: kung tourist visa long-term ang itutugon, maganda Cebu Pacific to ICN — pero para sa Gulf OFW deployment, mas straightforward ang MNL.

Terminals & getting there

3 carriers are based at KLO (RPVK), serving Kalibo in Western Visayas (Region VI). One ticket makes the connection the airline’s problem; two tickets make the bag reclaim, the second check-in and every consequence of a late first flight yours.

Where KLO cannot take you nonstop

2 of the 6 corridors catalogued from KLO have no nonstop carrier on file — NRT, SIN. Each is flown as a connection, in most cases through Manila.

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 KLO; 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.

Single integrated terminal, international wing sa kanan. Domestic flights majority. Pamasahe via Ceres / Southwest shuttle to Caticlan ferry: PHP 200-300, around 1.5-2 hours overland. Tricycle from Kalibo town: PHP 50-100. Parking PHP 50/hr.

All catalogued routes from KLO (6)

• KLO → ICN — Seoul
• KLO → HKG — Hong Kong
• KLO → PUS — Busan
• KLO → TPE — Taipei
• KLO → NRT — Tokyo
• KLO → SIN — Singapore

6 international corridors are catalogued from KLO, 4 of them with a nonstop carrier on file and about 16 one-way departures a week in total. 3 carriers base operations here: Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific and Philippines AirAsia. 1,200,000 passengers used the airport in 2023, per CAAP.

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.

FAQ

6 corridors sit from KLO behind the answers below, which are drawn from this site’s own route, carrier and fare files rather than from airline marketing. 6 corridors are catalogued from KLO, 4 of them with a nonstop carrier on file.

Every number on this page follows three conventions. Frequency is weekly one-way departures across all listed carriers, taken from published schedule snapshots, so it describes a typical week rather than a guarantee for your week — seasonal cuts and additions happen without the timetable being republished. Block time is gate to gate, not time in the air, which is why a connecting itinerary’s elapsed time can be several times the block figure. A catalogued corridor with no carrier means no nonstop is on file, not that the journey is impossible; it is flown with a connection, and the single decision that then matters is whether both legs sit on one ticket. One ticket gives you a through-checked bag, the airport’s published minimum connecting time as your protection, and re-accommodation if leg one runs late. Two tickets give you none of that. 3 of the corridors here operate four times a week or less, where a missed connection costs days rather than hours.

Anong international airlines sa KLO? Cebu Pacific to ICN/TPE, PAL to ICN, Cathay Dragon to HKG, Loong Air to HGH, Jin Air to PUS.

Pamasahe Kalibo airport to Caticlan ferry? Southwest/Ceres shuttle PHP 200-300, around 1.5-2 hours overland.

Boracay direct flight ba ang KLO? Hindi direct — kailangan pa ng land transfer to Caticlan jetty + ferry. MPH (Caticlan) is closer pero domestic-only.

OFW lane sa KLO? May OFW priority sa international counters, pero limited DMW presence — verify schedule online.

How many international corridors does KLO have on this site? 6 corridors are catalogued from KLO, of which 2 have no nonstop carrier on file and are flown as connections, in most cases through Manila.

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

How busy is KLO? 1,200,000 passengers used KLO in 2023, 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 →.