mid-sea express (mse) represents its name as middle of south east asia founded by capt. ronan d. villanueva, that started its operation as island helicopter services, that was established in the year 2008. after seeing the need to service the neighboring islands around cebu, he acquired an aircraft with a short take-off and landing capability, a bn-2a islander. starting a daily flight schedule from cebu to tagbilaran city, bohol, then a month after, cebu– bantayan island was also opened. then, it was successively followed by flights to camiguin and siquijor islands.