Kalibo Airport is the larger airport funneling traffic to and from Boracay Island. The planes coming in and out of the Kalibo airport are larger Boeing 737 jumbo jets. Kalibo is a small town on Panay Island, and Aklan Province in the southern Visayas Region of the Philippines.
Many foreign visitors traveling to Boracay from Manila choose this route because of its scenic beauty. Traveling through the Philippines countryside from Kalibo to Caticlan is an opportunity to see some of the local provinces and how the native Filipino people live. From Manila to Kalibo Airport on Panay Island flying by Philippines Airlines, the flight time from take off to the landing, is only 40 minutes, so by the time you arrive in Boracay you are fresh and not jet lagged.