Is Siargao Airport open?

Sayak Airport (IATA: IAO, ICAO: RPNS) operates daily on a published schedule. The status panel above checks live arrivals and departures over the last 12 hours and reports whether traffic looks normal, reduced, or absent. Always confirm directly with your airline before travelling.

The airport is officially named Sayak Airport. Its IATA code is IAO and its ICAO code is RPNS. It is a domestic airport on the western side of Siargao Island, Surigao del Norte, in the Philippines.

Cebu Pacific, Philippine Airlines, and AirSWIFT operate scheduled flights, mostly from Manila (MNL) and Cebu (CEB). Schedules and frequency change seasonally. Check each airline directly.

Closures are uncommon and almost always weather-driven. Typhoons happen between August and December, with occasional heavy weather any time of year. Closures from Typhoon Odette (Rai) in December 2021 lasted weeks. Outside of major weather events, daily operations are reliable.

Contact your airline first; they handle rebooking and refunds. If you are travelling with us, message the concierge: we have direct lines into the local ground operators and can usually arrange a private boat transfer from Surigao City or hold your villa until you arrive.

We check live flight movements at Sayak (RPNS) several times a day and report whether traffic looks normal, reduced, or absent. Three or more flights with low cancellations reads as Operational; fewer flights or many cancellations as Reduced; zero flights as No recent flights. This is a derived signal from public flight data and may lag a real disruption by a few hours, so always confirm with your airline before travelling.