United Airline From Hong Kong, joined Jan 2001, 8803 posts, RR: 17 Posted (2 years 7 months 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 2972 times:
Any news regarding PAL resuming service to Europe? They have been talking about this for years. Quite ironic that the national airline of Philippines does not include service to Europe!
CitationJet From United States of America, joined Mar 2003, 2249 posts, RR: 3 Reply 3, posted (2 years 7 months 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 2855 times:
SANMAN66 From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 611 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (2 years 7 months 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 2769 times:
According to a recent article.The Philippines passed an EU audit conducted in Oct. They appear to
be on their way to having the blacklist lifted on them. The article stated that PAL is looking at expanding
to Europe in 2012, choice destinations are London and Rome. The Philippines are confident that they will
have their FAA safety rating restored to CAT-1 early next year.
MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13369 posts, RR: 64 Reply 6, posted (2 years 7 months 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 2575 times:
The problem was not with PAL and Cebu Pacific, but with the corruption and lack of oversight by the Filipino authorities.
EASA said explicitely that these two airlines had done a lot to improve their operational safety, but the Filipino aviation authority was considered to be very corrupt.
laca773 From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 3752 posts, RR: 2 Reply 7, posted (2 years 7 months 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 2534 times:
I hope things improve for PAL. Because of all these safety concerns, they are not allowed to fly any new type of a/c on their transpacific flights to YVR/SFO/LAX. They can only fly a/c they had in service at the time of the EU black listing. Consequently, they can not fly their beautiful 77Ws on their longest r outes which is a real shame. I hope this changes for them in the not too far off futre.
sq_ek_freak From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2000, 1594 posts, RR: 21 Reply 8, posted (2 years 7 months 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 1963 times:
A bit off topic, but has the PR 77W made it onto their US flights yet? Any talk of JFK or any other east coast destination?
Quoting laca773 (Reply 7): I hope things improve for PAL. Because of all these safety concerns, they are not allowed to fly any new type of a/c on their transpacific flights to YVR/SFO/LAX. They can only fly a/c they had in service at the time of the EU black listing. Consequently, they can not fly their beautiful 77Ws on their longest r outes which is a real shame. I hope this changes for them in the not too far off futre.
Funny because they used to fly their MD-11's and B742's to Europe - neither aircraft type is in their active fleet anymore!
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21679 posts, RR: 23 Reply 9, posted (2 years 7 months 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 1945 times:
Quoting laca773 (Reply 7): ecause of all these safety concerns, they are not allowed to fly any new type of a/c on their transpacific flights to YVR/SFO/LAX.
They could use larger types or otherwise increase service to YVR but they would have to drop the tag-on sector to LAS. Canada isn't subject to FAA restrictions.
noelg From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (2 years 7 months 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 1926 times:
They would do well on the Europe-Australia sectors if they could send the 777 this way. A shame that they can't at the moment, would be a serious competitor to SQ/MH etc. If Royal Brunei can make it work....
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