Wings Lounge NAIA 3 – we tested twice and slept well
Wings Lounge NAIA 3 is the nearest possible place to relax or have a nap when in Manila International Airport. We had often read about Wings Lounge NAIA 3. We even provide a link...
Category: Airlines & Airports
More flights in the Visayas and Mindanao – The Cebu Pacific surprise
More flights in the Visayas and in northern Mindanao. Last Tuesday Cebu Pacific Air published a very nice surprise. Following heavy investments by Cebu Pacific Air, they ordered 15 new ATR 72-600 aircraft, the...
Filipino Time – PAL starts Clark Operation today
PAL starts Clark Operation today! This is perfect Filipino Time – haha. On Sunday, August 28, 2016 PAL announced: Philippine Airlines will be implementing flight schedule changes effective September 1, 2016 and will soon...
New Bohol Airport: what? which? when? where?
New Bohol Airport on Panglao island is said to be completed in 2017 or was it in 2018? The title photo shows the famous airport of Sint Maarten in the Caribbean. But Alona Beach...
Two typhoons and 200 cancelled flights – what a mess!
Two typhoons SARIKA/Karen and HAIMA/Lawin in a row and 200 cancelled flights today make air and sea trips difficult. Typhoon SARIKA/Karen crossed over northern Luzon last night and is now leaving from La Union. The...
NAIA Expressway is open – good news for transit passengers
Parts of the NAIA Expressway have been opened today. This expensive project, PHP 17.9 Billion | USD 374.76 Million, will decongest the roads around Manila’s NAIA airport. Travel time between the 4 terminals should be...
Philippine Airlines moving flights from Manila to Clark
Philippine Airlines transfers several flights from Manila’s NAIA-2 airport (MNL) to Clark in Pampanga province (CRK). The transfer will be effective as from September 1, 2016. It is known that Manila International Airport (MNL) is almost...
White Island the moving Sandbar of Camiguin seen from the Sky
White Island the moving sandbar of Camiguin fascinates indigenous people and tourists. When you go to White Island, you feel that its shape has changed. Each time you go there, you find one or two islands...
New Mactan-Cebu Airport terminal built of Wood
Mactan-Cebu Airport soon receives a new terminal building. This wouldn’t rock, but the fact that the building will be made of glued wood – glulam – is an absolute novelty in South East Asia. The...
Kalibo International Airport – 50 Mega Pesos Terminal Fee vanished
Kalibo International Airport is missing 50 Million Pesos (USD 1 Million) from Terminal Fee collection. It seems that ticket (fee) collectors have put the money in their own pockets. The INQUIRER reports that 11 contractual...
Do you VAPE? US-DOT to ban E-cigarettes!
VAPE? Never heard? So did I, until we got an inquiry from a reader of “Silent Gardens” two days ago. Vape means: To inhale vapour from E-cigarettes. 3 weeks ago my daughter Diane came for a...
NAIA-1 Dayrooms – failed again
NAIA-1 Dayrooms – Yesterday we got a message saying ‘kindly check our webpage https://dayroomnaiat1.wordpress.com‘. We were shocked! About a year ago we wrote that the NAIA-1 Dayrooms do have a severe communication problem. And...
Mactan–Cebu International Airport: Qatar Airways!
Mactan–Cebu International Airport is really on the go! CAPA reports: Qatar Airways to continue Southeast Asia expansion with new nonstop routes to Cebu and Hanoi. Qatar Airways CEO, Akbar Al Baker, told CAPA at...
Laptop and Smartphone in hand-carry only
ICAO Council Prohibits Lithium-Ion Cargo Shipments on Passenger Aircraft MONTRÉAL, 22 FEBRUARY 2016 – The 36-State ICAO Governing Council adopted a new aviation safety measure today which prohibits, on an interim basis, all shipments...
Mactan–Cebu International Airport: Again a step forward
Mactan–Cebu International Airport is progressing. In our article from Januar 27, 2016, we showed you the excellent renovation and extension work done by the Indians. Early this morning we learned that at least one...
Philippine Airlines selects the A350 XWB
Philippine Airlines selects the A350 XWB – this information just came in from Airbus. But be careful, Filipinos like to dream and announce their dreams as facts. And there is still the B787, called...
Mactan–Cebu International Airport: when the Indians clean up
Mactan–Cebu International Airport has undergone very important renovation works – in the building, in the management and in the staff. Since the Indians took over key positions last year, MCIA has become a pearl. The...
The 20 kilogram baggage limit – some hints
The 20 kilogram baggage limit on some domestic flights in the Philippines can create awful headaches. And worse, one cannot buy additional baggage allowance. Here are some hints. Why is there an absolute baggage limit...
FAA downgrades Thailand to Cat. 2 – CAAP must be careful
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced that the Kingdom of Thailand does not comply with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) safety standards and has been assigned a Category 2...
All cancelled flights by airline
All cancelled flights by airline – The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) has released a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) indicating a no-fly zone over the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) on November 18, 2015 (1:00PM...
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