AirSWIFT, the Philippines’ first boutique airline, has kicked off a new route — Manila to Romblon!
For really some time, the only way to access Romblon is by sea. It became easier to achieve when Romblon Airport (also regarded as Tugdan Airport or Tablas Airport) in the municipality of Alcantara opened and regular flights commenced running to the province. Nevertheless, the pandemic place a halt to its operations. The sea, once again, turned the only mode of industrial passenger transportation readily available.
Fast ahead to 24 September 2022: AirSWIFT experienced its inaugural flight! This will make traveling involving Manila and Romblon much more rapidly, less complicated, and more practical again. No want to burn numerous several hours on a ferry. This cuts the journey to around an hour.
As of this writing, here are the details:
- Terminal in Manila: NAIA Terminal 4
- Terminal in Romblon: Tugdan Airport (Romblon Airport) in Alcantara, Tablas Island
- Travel time: 1 hour and 15 minutes
- Plan: Tuesdays and Saturdays (2x a 7 days)
Ideal now, AirSWIFT has an introductory promo covering flights to Romblon. If you are traveling ahead of the calendar year ends, you can snag tickets for only P3,819, all-in. Much more details in the impression down below:
AirSWIFT has four sorts of airfare offers:
- Promo: This features limitless totally free rebooking and 7kg carry-on baggage. Having said that, considering that it’s a promo, restricted seats are out there for this deal.
- Essential: This will allow rebooking 5x for free of charge, but refunding and rerouting are not permitted. No test-in baggage allowance, but you have absolutely free 7kg for carry-on baggage.
- Benefit: This has 10kg look at-in baggage allowance on major of the 7kg have-on baggage. You can do rebooking 5X for free of charge, but you simply cannot do rerouting.
- Premium: This has the very same benefits as the Price offer BUT with a look at-in baggage allowance of 20kg in its place of just 10kg.
Be aware: When availing of the absolutely free rebooking, you must preserve in head that fare change may implement.
AirSWIFT makes use of the ATR 42-600, a turboprop regional airliner made by the Franco-Italian aircraft producer ATR (Avions de Transportation Régional). It seats up to 50 passengers only, which suggests a lot less fuss and strain at the airport, even through examine-in and boarding.
For much more information and facts about AirSWIFT and to examine out their flight schedule and fares, stop by www.air-swift.com.
In this article are the leading Romblon lodges and resorts on Agoda. Acquire observe of the area of these qualities due to the fact the province is an archipelago and the attributes beneath are in different islands.
Written by: Asta Alvarez
Pics by: Yosh Dimen
Disc: We were being fortunate and honored to be invited by the Section of Tourism (DOT) – MIMAROPA to rejoice the celebration with AirSWIFT and the people today of Romblon. The celebration and succeeding tour was arranged by AirSWIFT.