CEB Takes Delivery of 4th A339

 11 November 2022

Low Cost Carrier Cebu Pacific (CEB) took delivery of another A330-900 to its fleet Saturday updating its A339 fleet to four, as the airline keep its plans to transition to an all-neo Airbus fleet by 2028, its Chief Finance Officer said.

RP-C3903 powered by the same Rolls Royce Trent engines arrived in Manila from Toulouse, France, at 10:42am flying 13:49 hours non-stop, equivalent to 6,012nm trip, that traverses the Middle East instead of the Russian Airspace.

Mark Cezar said they still have another A320neo aircraft slated for delivery in December this year.

Cezar discloses that aircraft delivery will not result to growth as it replaces ageing planes to its fleet which returns to lessor at the end of their leases.

"As new A339 arrives, we let go of the old A330, so we are still operating 6 wide-bodies. That does not result to growth of fleet." says Cezar. 

Currently, CEB has 3 A330s and 4 A339s. 

The first A339 arrived in November 28 and the second in December last year, while the third frame arrived in May this year.

The airline said it is returning RP-C3345 this Month before activating the new A339, so they will still end up with 6 aircraft.

Earlier, the airline was forced to cancel reservations for thrice a week flight to Melbourne flights in November due to aircraft availability issues.

The CFO said the airline will have 8 A330-900 with 242t weight variant (wv901) by end of 2024.