Evelio Javier Airport , also known as Antique Airport and San Jose Airport, is the only airport

Airport

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 serving the province of Antique

Antique province

Antique is a province of the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. Its capital is San Jose and is located at the western portion of Panay Island, bordering Aklan, Capiz, and Iloilo to the east. Antique faces the Sulu Sea to the west....

 in the Philippines

Philippines

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. The airport is located in the provincial capital San Jose

San Jose, Antique

San Jose is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Antique, Philippines. It is the capital municipality of Antique...

, and is classified as a secondary, or a minor commercial domestic airport, by the Air Transportation Office, a body of the Department of Transportation and Communications

Department of Transportation and Communications (Philippines)

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 that is responsible for the operations of not only this airport but also of all other airports in the Philippines except the major international airports.

The airport is named after Evelio Javier

Evelio Javier

Evelio Bellaflor Javier was a Filipino lawyer, civil servant, politician, and an oppositionist during the authoritarian regime of President Ferdinand Marcos. Due to these activities, he was assassinated by the regime on February 11, 1986...

, a former governor of Antique and a vocal critic of former president Ferdinand Marcos

Ferdinand Marcos

Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr. was a Filipino leader and an authoritarian President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and a member of the Philippine Senate...

. He was brutally assassinated in the early 1980s.