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PAL to deploy over 1,500 additional flights in March

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Philippine Airlines said Tuesday it is adding more than 1,500 additional flights in March as international borders reopen and domestic travel restrictions ease.

PAL said the 1,500-plus flights represent a 52-percent expansion in regular scheduled flights, demonstrating its confidence that tourist and business travel will rebound strongly in the coming months as artificial barriers are falling and the pandemic is receding significantly.

“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.

“We are reasonably optimistic that air travel will rebound in the months ahead, signaling a resurgence for Philippine tourism,” he said.

PAL’s flights to the US and Canada will increase by over 24 percent this month, with Los Angeles moving up to 11 flights weekly. San Francisco will receive daily flights. New York, Vancouver, Honolulu, Toronto and Guam will see additional weekly services by April.

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PAL’s Southeast Asia flight will increase to 98 percent. PAL’s Manila-Singapore route will rise to 14 weekly flights in March, 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, Nagoya, Fukuoka and Tokyo’s Haneda and Narita airports. PAL operates the largest network of flights to multiple points in Japan.

The Middle East region will see a 16-percent increase in flights out of the Saudi Arabian cities of Riyadh and Dammam. PAL flies regularly nonstop from Dubai and Doha.

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.

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