MANILA, Philippines — The entire Philippine airspace will shut down for six hours on May 17, from 12 a.m. to 6 a.m., to make way for the replacement of the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system that failed…
Local airlines have been ramping up flights to other countries to address increasing demand for air mobility as international travel returns. Philippine Airlines (PAL) will resume its Manila-Bali, Indonesia route by July 1, flying thrice weekly. The…
MANILA, Philippines — There is no fare hike in airlines for now despite rising fuel costs, the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) said Tuesday. CAB operations head Eldric Peredo said that current airline fares are within their implemented…
MANILA, Philippines — Lawmakers on Sunday called on the government to support the embattled Philippine Airlines (PAL) during its restructuring process and come to the aid of other airlines to help them weather the economic turbulence caused…
Heavy losses continued for the operator of budget airline Cebu Pacific amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Cebu Air Inc. disclosed on Wednesday a net loss of P14.7 billion by the end of September this year—a reversal of the…
MANILA, Philippines — The umbrella organization of the country’s largest travel agencies on Wednesday, October 21, 2020, urged airlines to expedite the refund of hundreds of millions worth of unused airfare that have remained pending since the…
Faced with the coronavirus collapse in travelers, Taiwanese airlines have begun offering sight-seeing “flights to nowhere” on their passenger jets — including flight attendant lessons for children. At the headquarters of Taiwan’s China Airlines in Taoyuan on…
MANILA, Philippines – Local airlines battered by the new coronarvirus (COVID-19) pandemic are raring to take the skies once more. The Air Carriers Association of the Philippines (Acap) said in a statement on Tuesday that member airlines…
Income reports for the first quarter of the year are starting to paint a grim picture for many companies adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The impact on businesses is mostly unfavorable, except for a very few…
Less than two months after Chinese authorities acknowledged the emergence of an infectious outbreak from an unknown coronavirus in the city of Wuhan in central China, the world is witnessing an explosion of effects never before seen…
The fear of the coronavirus disease, officially known as COVID-19, is affecting every single person in the planet that it has practically changed the way people live. Nowadays, one can’t enter an office building, shopping mall,…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Two airline companies have already cancelled flights to and from Cebu as Typhoon Ursula intensifies into a severe tropical storm a day before Christmas, December 24, 2019. In an advisory released by GMR…
