Francisco B. Reyes Airport (USU)

Francisco B. Reyes Airport (USU) is the airport people use for Coron, but physically it is a Busuanga airfield serving the wider Calamian group rather than a terminal sitting in Coron town itself. That distinction shapes the whole passenger experience. You land on northern Palawan’s ranch-and-hill landscape and then continue by road to Coron port, hotels, or resort transfer points, so the airport functions as the first stage of a longer island journey rather than as a doorstep terminal. CAAP treats it as Francisco B. Reyes (Busuanga) Airport, which is a better description of its role than the simplified tourism habit of calling it merely 'Coron airport.'

The terminal itself is much smaller than the scale of Coron tourism might lead first-time visitors to expect. This is not a large resort-airport complex with multiple piers or a heavy retail program; it is a compact domestic facility built around quick aircraft turnaround, short walking distances, and simple landside processing. The atmosphere is closer to a busy provincial gateway than to a polished international leisure terminal. That matters because almost all of the airport’s real complexity happens after arrival, when passengers sort into hotel vans, shared transfers, dive-resort pickups, or pier-bound vehicles headed toward Coron and the outlying islands.

What makes USU distinctive is the mismatch between the modest terminal and the outsized fame of the destination it serves. Travelers arrive through a straightforward provincial airport and then continue toward some of the Philippines’ most photographed limestone lagoons, wreck-diving sites, and island resorts. The terminal therefore feels less like the destination itself and more like a pressure valve between heavy tourism demand and the practical limits of island infrastructure. That is why Busuanga can be both very busy and still operationally simple: the airport’s job is not to impress with architecture, but to keep Coron’s visitor pipeline moving through a small airfield that remains unmistakably regional in scale.