Flights resume at Bacolod-Silay, Iloilo airports

Source: Manila Bulletin

ILOILO CITY - Flights have resumed at the Bacolod-Silay Airport and Iloilo Airport on Tuesday, June 4, following the eruption of Mount Kanlaon on Monday night, June 3.

THE flight counter at Bacolod-Silay Airport in Negros Occidental on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, after flights resumed following cancellations after Mount Kanlaon erupted on Monday night. (Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines)

"As of 11 a.m., flight have resumed," Arthur Parreño of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP)-Iloilo said.

"Operations at Bacolod-Silay Airport have resumed as of 11 a.m. today, following last night's grounding of flights due to the phreatic eruption of Kanlaon Volcano," said CAAP Area in an announcement on Facebook.

Thousands of passengers were affected when flights to and from Bacolod-Silay Airport in Negros Occidental province and Iloilo Airport in Iloilo province were grounded.

Philippine Airlines and Cebu Pacific flights at both airports resumed.

Parreño added that Air Asia resumed flights at Iloilo Airport.

But he said that flight resumptions are based on the condition that no major disturbance from Mount Kanlaon occurs again.