Francisco B. Reyes Airport (Busuanga) (USU)

Francisco B. Reyes Airport (USU, Busuanga) ang gateway ng Coron at Busuanga, Palawan — around 380,000 passengers nung 2023. Domestic-only operations, tourism-driven. Served by PAL, Cebu Pacific, at AirSwift. Heto ang terminal guide at access notes ngayong 2026.

Quick facts

380,000 passengers used USU in 2023 (CAAP). The airport carries ICAO code RPSN, serves Coron / Busuanga, Palawan, and has 0 international corridors catalogued on this site. 3 carriers base operations here: Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific and Philippines AirAsia. 380,000 passengers used the airport in 2023, per CAAP.

The headline throughput figure is 380,000 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. Tourism gateway to Coron/Palawan; domestic only.

• Codes: IATA USU · ICAO RPSN
• City: Coron / Busuanga, Palawan, MIMAROPA (Region IV-B)
• Hub airlines: Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific, Philippines AirAsia
• International service: No

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Popular international routes from USU

0 international corridors are catalogued from USU, 0 of them with a nonstop carrier on file. 3 carriers base operations here: Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific and Philippines AirAsia. 380,000 passengers used the airport in 2023, per CAAP.

Distances to the gateways this site catalogues international service from:

• USU → MNL (Ninoy Aquino International Airport) — about 280 km great-circle.
• USU → CRK (Clark International Airport) — about 340 km great-circle.
• USU → CEB (Mactan-Cebu International Airport) — about 470 km great-circle.

The distance is the small part of the problem. The expensive part is how the two legs are ticketed. Buy the USU 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).

Francisco B. Reyes Airport (Busuanga) 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 USU, 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:

• Philippine Airlines — 41 international destinations catalogued from Philippine airports.
• Cebu Pacific — 29 international destinations catalogued from Philippine airports.
• Philippines AirAsia — 10 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 USU 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 USU — para sa international, kailangan transit via MNL. Mga taga-Coron, Busuanga na OFW karamihan dumadaan sa NAIA. Tourism-driven mostly ang traffic — peak season balikbayan flow from Australia/Canada papunta beach destination. Porter culture: PHP 100-200 per box. Tip: kung tipid mode, ferry from Manila/Batangas to Coron mas mahaba pero mas mura — mga 12-15 hours.

Terminals & getting there

3 carriers are based at USU (RPSN), serving Coron / Busuanga, Palawan in MIMAROPA (Region IV-B). 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 USU connection is booking both legs on one ticket, which converts a missed connection from your problem into the airline’s.

Maliit na terminal sa Busuanga town, around 20-30 mins van travel mula Coron town. Domestic only. Pamasahe via van/jeepney from Coron: PHP 150-250, around 30-45 mins. Tricycle from Busuanga: PHP 50-100. Parking minimal.

FAQ

3 carriers base operations here: Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific and Philippines AirAsia. 380,000 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.

Anong airline fly sa USU? PAL Express, Cebu Pacific, AirSwift from MNL/CEB. Domestic only.

Pamasahe USU airport to Coron town? Van/jeepney PHP 150-250, around 30-45 mins.

USU vs PPS for Palawan? USU = Coron/north Palawan; PPS = Puerto Princesa/central Palawan. Choose based on destination.

OFW lane sa USU? Wala dedicated — domestic only. OFW Pass scan sa MNL transfer.

Can I fly internationally direct from USU? No. 0 scheduled international corridors are catalogued from USU; the nearest international gateway on file is MNL, about 280 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 USU? 3 carriers are recorded as basing operations at USU: Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific and Philippines AirAsia. The airport’s ICAO code is RPSN and it serves MIMAROPA (Region IV-B).

How busy is USU? 380,000 passengers used USU 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 →.