Tablas Airport (TBH) — International Flights, OFW Lane, Terminals

Tablas Airport (TBH) ang gateway ng Tablas Island, Romblon. Maliit na community airport, domestic-only ang operations, served by Cebu Pacific from MNL. Tourism at homecoming traffic — walang OFW departures. Heto ang quick guide ngayong 2026.

Quick facts

0 international corridors from TBH are catalogued on this site. The airport carries ICAO code RPVU and serves Alcantara, Tablas Island, Romblon. 1 carrier bases operations here: Cebu Pacific.

Transferring at TBH

1 carrier base operations at TBH: Cebu Pacific. 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 TBH connection is booking both legs on one ticket, which converts a missed connection from your problem into the airline’s.

• Codes: IATA TBH · ICAO RPVU
• City: Alcantara, Tablas Island, Romblon, MIMAROPA (Region IV-B)
• Hub airlines: Cebu Pacific
• International service: No

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Popular international routes from TBH

0 international corridors are catalogued from TBH, 0 of them with a nonstop carrier on file. 1 carrier bases operations here: Cebu Pacific.

Distances to the gateways this site catalogues international service from:

• TBH → MNL (Ninoy Aquino International Airport) — about 270 km great-circle.
• TBH → CEB (Mactan-Cebu International Airport) — about 300 km great-circle.
• TBH → CRK (Clark International Airport) — about 360 km great-circle.

The distance is the small part of the problem. The expensive part is how the two legs are ticketed. Buy the TBH feeder and the international sector on one ticket and the airlines own the join: the bag is tagged through to your final destination, the published minimum connecting time is your protection, and a weather cancellation on the domestic leg obliges them to re-accommodate you. Buy them separately — which is what almost every price-sorted search result encourages — and you own all of it: bag reclaim, a second check-in, no protection if leg one slips, and an OFW baggage uplift that does not extend to a feeder the international carrier never sold you. On a weather-exposed field the single-ticket rule matters more than anywhere else, because the cancellation you are insuring against is the likely one, not the rare one.

Domestic-only airport — for international, transit via MNL (NAIA) or CEB (Mactan).

Tablas Airport has no scheduled international flights as of 2026-05-09. Kabayan na pa-Gulf, Asia, or Korea, kailangan ng connecting flight via MNL or CEB international gateways.

OFW + balikbayan tips

0 international corridors are catalogued from TBH, so an overseas departure from here always begins with a domestic leg to a gateway. That leg decides whether an OFW baggage uplift survives the transfer: it only does when both legs are sold on a single ticket.

Networks reachable through the carriers based here:

• Cebu Pacific — 29 international destinations catalogued from Philippine airports.

This is the practical reason to check the operating carrier before the price. Where the domestic operator out of TBH also flies the international sector, a through fare is usually available and the whole journey travels on one contract. Where it does not, you are relying on an interline agreement between two airlines, and if none exists, the cheapest-looking combination is two unconnected purchases. The gap only shows itself when something goes wrong, which is precisely when you have no leverage left to fix it.

Domestic-only ang TBH — kapag taga-Romblon na OFW, palaging via Manila transit. Less common ang OFW deployment from Romblon — mas tourism at homecoming traffic. Para sa balikbayan papuntang Romblon, allow buffer kasi limited flight frequency. Porter culture casual — PHP 50-100 lang. Tip: alternative is ferry from Batangas/Roxas pier — mas mahaba pero mas tipid kapag bagahe-heavy.

Terminals & getting there

1 carrier are based at TBH (RPVU), serving Alcantara, Tablas Island, Romblon in MIMAROPA (Region IV-B). The airline only owns your transfer here if both legs are on a single ticket — on two tickets, reclaiming the bag, checking in again and absorbing any delay are all on you.

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.

Maliit na terminal sa Alcantara town, Tablas. Domestic only. Pamasahe via tricycle: PHP 50-100, very malapit sa town. Walang taxi — tricycle at multicab. Parking minimal.

FAQ

1 carrier bases operations here: Cebu Pacific.

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.

Anong airline fly sa TBH? Cebu Pacific (5J) from MNL. Limited frequency, domestic only.

Pamasahe airport to Alcantara town? Tricycle PHP 50-100, very malapit.

Tablas vs ferry from Batangas? Flight more comfortable (1 hour); ferry more tipid (mga 8-10 hours sea travel).

OFW deployment from TBH? Wala direct — kailangan transit MNL.

Can I fly internationally direct from TBH? No. 0 scheduled international corridors are catalogued from TBH; the nearest international gateway on file is MNL, about 270 km away. Book the domestic leg and the international sector on one ticket so the bag is checked through and the connection is the airline’s responsibility.

Which airlines are based at TBH? 1 carrier are recorded as basing operations at TBH: Cebu Pacific. The airport’s ICAO code is RPVU and it serves MIMAROPA (Region IV-B).

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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 →.