Nice to look at, lovely to hold …
Nice to look at, lovely to hold, but if you break it, consider it sold. At Cebu pacific Air they should remember this often seen warning in porcelain shops. Actually it reads a bit different at Cebu Pacific...
Category: Airlines & Airports
Davao runway to be cleared tonight
The joint recovery team (Cebu Pacific Air & CAAP) could not get the Airbus A320 off the runway before 3 p.m. this afternoon. This deadline had been imposed by CAAP this morning. But the...
Davao airport still closed
The airport of Davao is still closed because the Cebu Pacific Air A-320 is still on the runway. Photo courtesy of CAAP Cebu Pacific has the principal responsibility of removing the plane from the...
Cheap flight lure to Philippines
Philippine Airlines is offering return fares to Manila from just $520 to launch its first service to Perth, which starts this morning. The fare is the latest in an expanding price war, with airlines...
Runway Excursion of a Cebu Pacific A-320 in Davao
Yesterday evening an A-320 of Cebu Pacific Air ran out of the runway in Davao in a heavy downpour. Fortunately nobody got injured. Difficult job for the emergency response team in the dark. On the...
Not only in the air
The Philippines have once been a technologically rather advanced country with well trained people. But then education got neglected and funds flowed in the wrong pockets. The results are known: Air Transportation: – FAA...
Bicol International Airport Project is advancing
The Bicol region is one of the fastest growing regions of the Philippines and one of the country’s hottest tourist spots. With destinations like Mount Mayon, the Caramoan Islands, and Whale Shark Diving in Donsol,...
Camiguin: Cebu Pacific Air flights are a great success
The Cebu Pacific Air flights from Cebu to Camiguin are a great success. Cebu Pacific Air started this flights on April 15, 2013. See also here The 3 weekly flights are always fully booked. This...
NAIA-3, hot, hotter, boiling
NAIA is the best symbol of what is incorrigibly wrong about our country. NAIA stands for something no self respecting Filipino can be proud of. Mention NAIA and our heads bow in shame and...
New Airline in the Philippines – no, that isn’t a joke!
While CAAP is still struggling to bring the Philippines’ airspace out of Cat.2 and black-lists, a new airline announces its launch – “Fil-Asian Airways”. Well, it’s not really a new airline but a re-branded...
NAIA likes VERLAN
It’s really more fun in the Philippines! At NAIA (Ninoy Aquino International Airport) in Manila, French travelers are now greated in VERLAN. Verlan is an argot in the French language, featuring inversion of syllables in...
Palau Airways and TonléSap Airlines suspend flights until autumn
Our eastern neighbors in Palau, got a little problem. Palau Airways – P7, and its sister carrier, TonléSap Airlines – K9, have both suspended their flights effective immediately. It is understood that both airlines have temporarily ceased operations for the...
Happy bumping Mr. President
Yesterday President Aquino discovered that it’s no fun to land on Catarman’s runway on board of a Philippine Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo plane. Photo courtesy of wikipedia.org The usual Fokker F-28 presidential plane...
Progress – yes, but too small
Today I want to share with you an article written by Boo Chanco in the Philstar Business. The article starts as this: I don’t know how P-Noy feels about the attitude of DOTC officials regarding the...
Flights in Cagayan de Oro still at old Lumbia airport
Now it is official: Flights from/to Cagayan de Oro are still operating at the old Lumbia airport. Cebu Pacific Air informed their customers yesterday by text/SMS: Please be informed that Cebu Pacific will still...
The sky in the Philippines is moving
Next Monday, April 22, 2013, the government will publish the bid documents worth PHP 434.5 million of contracts for upgrading night landing operations in 8 airports across the country. The introduction of the bid document reads: “The...
Cagayan de Oro Airport: WHEN ???
We informed you already yesterday that there is an information problem about the moving of Cagayan de Oro airport from Lumbia to Laguindingan. The order, published in the Official Gazette of Malacanang Palace reads:...
Airports: Expect longer queues at security checks
Following the bombing at the Boston Marathon last Monday authorities have tightened security at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) terminals and other international airports in the country. Especially at the NAIA Terminal 1, passenger queues...
Laguindingan maybe later than announced
Last week Cebu Pacific Air informed their customers that their flights to and from Cagayan de Oro will be operating in the new Laguindingan Airport as by June 30, 2013. See here But today at noon-time...
How soon is soon?
As if Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC) had read my yesterday’s blog entry they announced that the country will soon have its first bullet train. The plan for the bullet train is to construct the...
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