PAL Registers 102% In Flight Increase

As Compared To November Figures

24 December 2020

Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) has ramped up its domestic flights on various domestic and foreign routes in line with its network restoration plan to the delight of its creditors.

The airline said it has restored services to 15 additional destinations increasing the PAL network to a grand total of 25 domestic and 32 international flights, equivalent to 102 percent increase in PAL flights vs. November 2020 levels. It however loses London, and Saudi Arabia bound flights as a result of government mandated travel restrictions.

PAL has doubled its services  between Manila and Cebu, from 14 to 28 round-trip flights weekly since December 1. Flights between Manila and Cagayan de Oro also increase to three times daily, while flights between Manila and Tacloban were doubled to two times a day.

The airline resumed services to Antique, Basco, Boracay, Catarman ,Coron, Panglao, Siargao and Bacolod.  While its Cebu hub continues to expand with flights to Clark, Puerto Princesa, Legazpi, Bacolod, Davao, Butuan, General Santos and Siargao.  PAL is likewise operating regularly from Davao to Zamboanga and vice versa.

PAL is also slowly increasing flight frequencies on most domestic routes, from Manila to Laoag, Legazpi, Puerto Princesa, Kalibo, Iloilo, Cotabato, Butuan, Dipolog, Ozamiz, Pagadian and Zamboanga.

The airline is also adding more flights to New York, Honolulu, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, Toronto, Guam, Jakarta, Bangkok, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hong Kong, Taipei, Dubai and Doha.

Meanwhile, PAL has secured contract to transport vaccines in Asia Pacific as it reactivates its fleet of widebody aircraft for the task of transporting life saving vaccines around the region.

PAL has also set up a One-Stop-Shop center at Naia Terminal 2 that augments the national government’s existing facilities to conduct mandatory RT-PCR swab testing for arriving passengers raising NAIA capacity to 5,000 per day from the previous 3,000 capacity.

PAL also continues to operate repatriation flights that transport stranded OFWs and other Overseas Filipinos home from all over the world, along with all-cargo charter flights to transport essential goods in Asia and North America.