New flight routes bring Cebu closer to East, West Visayas

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/20/2016

Three new flight routes linking Cebu to the Eastern and Western Visayas regions are seen to bolster Cebu’s position as the “Queen City of the South.” Alexander Lao, president and chief executive officer of Cebgo, a wholly-owned…

Cebu Pacific plane aborts takeoff after wheel caught fire

Victor Anthony V. Silva 09/26/2016

One of Cebu Pacific’s (CEB) propeller-type planes caught fire after aborting take off at 6:10 pm Monday. Lawyer JR Mantaring, CEB vice president for corporate affairs, said in an advisory that flight DG6577 Cebu-Tacloban aborted take off…

Passengers should deplane if tarmac delay hits 2 hours

08/31/2016

CAB resolution is expected to be implemented in late September MANILA — The government wants to cut long waiting times for passengers onboard aircraft parked on the tarmac — the subject of heavy criticism from flyers given…

Urgent need for flight reroute proposal consultations cited

Victor Anthony V. Silva 08/18/2016

PUBLIC consultation on the proposed flight rerouting scheme for Manila-bound flights in the Visayas area to Clark International Airport in Pampanga needs to be done as soon as possible. Michael Dino, presidential assistant for the Visayas, cited…

Plane catches fire before takeoff

05/28/2016

Tokyo — An engine fire broke out on a Korean Air jet about to take off from a Tokyo airport yesterday, and seven people may have been injured, an official said. Firefighters put out the blaze within…

EgyptAir plane carrying 66 passengers crashes

05/20/2016

Cairo — An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early yesterday morning, Egyptian aviation officials said. EgyptAir Flight 804 was lost from radar at 2:45…

Solar plane’s Pacific crossing going smoothly

04/23/2016

OVER THE PACIFIC OCEAN — A solar-powered plane’s flight across the Pacific Ocean was going smoothly as it gets closer to a stop in Northern California. The Solar Impulse 2 picked up a strong tailwind before sunset…

Airport tour delights Lapu school pupils

09/14/2015

GMR MEGAWIDE Cebu Airport Corp. (GMCAC), through its Dream Starters program, has helped fulfill the dreams of 60 elementary students and 30 faculty members from three different public schools in Lapu-Lapu City to tour the facilities of…

Cebu Pacific plane from Kalibo allegedly struck by lightning

07/28/2015

KALIBO, Aklan–Just 40 minutes after takeoff from Kalibo International Airport in Aklan at 6:50 a.m., a Cebu Pacific plane bound for Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila experienced light turbulence on Tuesday. The fasten-your-seatbelt sign was turned…

AirAsia and Cebu Pacific

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 01/05/2015

Unlike in the so-called “Great Christmapocalypse of 2014” set off by a string of delayed Cebu Pacific flights that caused widespread anger and massive chaos in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) last Christmas day, the man…

Finally, bodies found in crash site of missing plane

AP 12/31/2014

Bloated bodies and debris seen floating in Indonesian waters Tuesday painfully ended the mystery of AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed into the Java Sea with 162 people aboard and took more than two days to find, despite…

Airliner fulfills dream to fly

Norman V. Mendoza 12/13/2014

Underprivileged children board AirAsia Zest flights, taken on tour A total of 30 underprivileged children had their dreams to fly in an airplane fulfilled after an airline took them in for a joyride last Dec. 12, 2014.…

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