Cotabato Airport — Attraction in Mindanao

Cotabato Airport or Awang Airport is a small passenger airport that shares its runway with the Philippine Air Force. It is the main airport for passengers bound for Cotabato City and Maguindanao province. This passenger airport is under renovation so the experience is not good especially for those departing from Cotabato. For arriving passengers kindly expect checked baggages will be brought to the parking area for sorting and retrieval. The airport is located at the outskirts of the component city of Cotabato, about 15 minutes from the government center of BARMM and about 20-25 minutes from the old city hall and common center of the city. It is not accessible by public transportation so hiring a taxi or owning a car is the...

Small airport but very smooth process getting into Cotabato City from Manila. The terminal building is under construction at the time of this writing (Jan 2023). You leave the plane and walk off the tarmac into a waiting area under canopy and they will bring all the checked luggage out. There is a phone number you can call written on the tent to arrange a driver, or you can use the jeeps that are at Awang airport. Whole process from arrival to baggage retrieval took...

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