PAL To Fly Ormoc

Thrice A Week on Q400s

9 July 2024

Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) is scheduled to fly to Ormoc beginning in February 2025,  according to Ormoc City government.

In a statement on Monday, Mayor Lucy Torres Gomez said they met on July 4 with Captain Stanley Ng, PAL president and chief operating officer, to discuss plans to launch the new air route.

Torres said she welcomed the plan of Philippine Airlines (PAL) to open the Manila-Ormoc route in support of the goal of having "reliable air transportation" to Ormoc City, and to the western side of Leyte Island, including Southern Leyte and Biliran provinces.

Currently, Manila-bound travelers from Ormoc have to take a more than two-hour trip to Tacloban City to catch a plane ride to the country's capital.

PAL will fly Ormoc three times a week using an 86-seater turboprop Q400 aircraft.

Ng said they are still finalizing the schedule at Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport and should be announced soon.

PAL said they are just waiting for CAAP to grant them permit to fly, as they are still awaiting the completion of an air control tower to be operational in December this year, to direct and monitor the movement of civil aircraft.

The airport used to accommodate Cebu-Ormoc-Cebu and Clark-Ormoc-Clark flights but these stopped due to pandemic restrictions in early 2020.