PAL Raises Flights By 52% In Summer Timetable

11 March 2022

Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) is adding more than 1,500 additional flights for its summer timetable beginning in March as international borders reopen and domestic travel restrictions ease.

PAL said the 1,500-plus additional flights represent a 52-percent expansion in regular scheduled flights.

“We are seizing the opportunity to intensify our efforts to promote international tourist travel to the Philippines, as well as to respond to rising demand for flights to serve overseas Filipinos and a recovering economy,” acting PAL president and chief operating officer Captain Stanley Ng said.

The airline's flight to the US and Canada will increase by over 24 percent this month, with Los Angeles moving up to 11 flights weekly, from 9 flights previously. It will go twice daily beginning June 4. 

San Francisco will receive daily flights from five flights before beginning April 5. New York is moving 3 flights weekly from the previous two, while Vancouver will see two additional flights beginning April 3, and daily flights beginning July 4. 

Honolulu will have additional flight beginning June 4, up from 3 flights weekly, while Toronto gains additional flight from 2 flights weekly. Guam will have daily services beginning May 16 up from previous 5 flights.

Meanwhile, PAL’s Southeast Asia flight will increase by 98 percent from its winter timetable. 

PAL’s Manila-Singapore route will rise to 14 weekly flights in beginning April 1, and ultimately to 28 weekly flights in succeeding months.

PAL will also add more flights to Bangkok, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Phnom Penh and both Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and Hanoi in Vietnam.

Routes to Japan will increase by around 11 percent, with additional services to Osaka (10 flights beginning April 1, and 12 flights beginning July 2), Nagoya (additional flight beginning April 3, and additional flight beginning July 5), Fukuoka (additional flight beginning July 7) and Tokyo’s Haneda (daily beginning April 2, and 10 flights a week beginning July 1) and Narita airports (10 flights beginning April 1 and 12 flights beginning July 2). 

The Middle East region will see a 16-percent increase in flights out of the Saudi Arabian cities of Riyadh (daily beginning May 1) and Dammam (2 more flights from existing 3 flight. PAL flies daily from Dubai and Doha.

Meanwhile, flight services to London will remain the same at 1 per week every Tuesday, up from the previous 2 flights monthly, and will still overfly the Russian Airspace, as the Philippines maintains good relations with Russia. 

PAL will also begin twice weekly flight to Tel Aviv on June 8.

The flag carrier is set to increase domestic flights by more than 56 percent. This will include more frequency from Manila to Cebu, Davao, Bacolod, Legazpi, Iloilo, Cagayan de Oro, Boracay and Tacloban.

Twice daily flights will operate between Manila and Coron (Busuanga), Tagbilaran (Panglao), Dumaguete and Butuan. The flag carrier will offer 11 weekly flights between Zamboanga and Manila and twice weekly flights between Zamboanga and Tawi-Tawi.

Daily flights will now be offered between Manila and Puerto Princesa, Kalibo, Roxas, Cotabato, Ozamiz City, Pagadian and General Santos City.

PAL’s Cebu hub will link Mactan Cebu with 13 airports in Mindanao, Luzon and the rest of the Visayas, including Clark, Siargao, Butuan, Davao, Boracay and Coron.

Davao will see regular flights to Iloilo and Tagbilaran, in addition to Manila.

PAL will continue serving Antique, Basco, Laoag, Catarman, Calbayog and Siargao.