San Antonio Airport, unofficially known as Dalupiri Airport, is an airstrip on the island of Dalupiri, which is part of the
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
of
San Antonio
("Cradle of Freedom")
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province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...
of
Northern Samar
Northern Samar ( war, Amihanan Samar/Norte san Samar; tl, Hilagang Samar), officially the Province of Northern Samar, is a Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas Regions of the Philippines, regio ...
in the
Eastern Visayas
Eastern Visayas ( war, Sinirangan Kabisay-an; ceb, Sidlakang Kabisay-an; tl, Silangang Kabisayaan or ''Silangang Visayas'') is an administrative region in the Philippines, designated as Region VIII. It consists of three main islands, Samar, ...
region
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of the
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
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* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
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.
History
Harlin Abayon, the representative of the 1st District of Northern Samar, lobbied for the construction of the airport as early as 1996.
The airport's construction was approved and funded by virtue of Republic Act No. 9330, enacted on 8 August 2004. The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) (now Department of Transportation, DOTr) was made the responsible agency for the San Antonio Airport Development Project.
From 2007 to 2009 the amount of funds spent on the airport project totalled 30.4 million, spread across four contracts. By 2014 the amount already spent by the government on the airport amounted to around 40 million; its status was questioned in the floor of the House of Representatives.
Even though a feasibility study conducted by the DOTC found that the airport was not viable at the time given the low rate of economic
internal rate of return
Internal rate of return (IRR) is a method of calculating an investment’s rate of return. The term ''internal'' refers to the fact that the calculation excludes external factors, such as the risk-free rate, inflation, the cost of capital, or fin ...
, Rep. Abayon argued for its continued construction and was able to secure in the General Appropriations Act of 2016 50 million in funds for the DOTC to acquire the airport site.
See also
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List of airports in the Philippines
This is a list of airports in the Philippines, grouped by type.
Classification
Regulation over airports and aviation in the Philippines lies with the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP). The CAAP's classification system, introduce ...