Business Mirror
Tuesday, 09 August 2011 18:39 Lenie Lectura / Reporter
THE budget airline of flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) has asked the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB)?for flight entitlements to Malaysia. Specifically, it asked the board to 1,260 seat entitlements so it could service the Manila-Kuala Lumpur (KL)-Manila route.?
The airline is also interested to fly to other points in Malaysia other than KL and also asked the CAB to grant it another 720 seat entitlements.
The Philippines and Malaysia amended on June 8 an air services agreement for both countries. From 2,300 weekly seats, both air panels agreed to increase entitlements by 2,520 additional seats.
AirphilExpress is the third airline which applied for rights to fly to Malaysia.?
Southeast Asian Airlines also sought for seat entitlements to Malaysia totaling to 5,400-weekly seats.
The company asked for 2,520 seats per week to mount flights between Clark and KL; 1,260-weekly seats to be utilized for flights between Clark and Kota Kinabalu; 540 seats per week to Kuching; another 540 seats to Penang; and the same number of seats to Langkawi.
Cebu Pacific, for its part, applied for additional 720-weekly seats. Cebu Pacific is currently mounting 10 weekly flights for the Manila-KL route. This translates to 1,800 seats a week.
Cebu Pacific vice president for marketing and distribution Candice Iyog earlier said the company intends to mount twice daily flights within the year. The twice-a-day flights are already equivalent to 2,520 weekly seats.
“So, at a minimum and within the year, we would need an additional 720 seats a week. Starting next year though we want to go three times daily on Manila-KL,” Iyog had said.?
CAB executive director Carmelo Arcilla said the board will study the applications and release its decision after hearings are concluded.
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