Ben175 From Australia, joined Jul 2008, 570 posts, RR: 0 Posted (2 months 3 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 2836 times:
Hugely rumored for the past few months, Philippine Airlines has officially announced new services from Manila to Brisbane and Perth, both via Darwin, from June 1.
Quoted from QF175 in the Australian Aviation Thread #69:
Quote: BRISBANE
All services operate via Darwin with A320s
Fares are not yet bookable through Philippineairlines.com, however are available for booking via the likes of Zuji et al.
Fantastic to see such rapid expansion down under. I wish PR well with these new flights. I'm very surprised PER is getting more frequency than BNE, seeing as PR used to operate to BNE until 2010.
diesel33 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 294 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (2 months 3 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 2603 times:
Quoting Ben175 (Thread starter): PER is getting more frequency than BNE, seeing as PR used to operate to BNE until 2010.
I would've thought that Brisbane would get 4 weekly as well. Maybe it has to do with QF (1x weekly?) and their service to Manila from Brisbane? Either way, very exciting news!
I think it's funny that out of all five cities that Philippine Airlines will be flying to, Darwin, the smallest city, will be the only one to have daily flights to Manila.
Ben175 From Australia, joined Jul 2008, 570 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (2 months 3 weeks 1 day ago) and read 2512 times:
Quoting diesel33 (Reply 1): I think it's funny that out of all five cities that Philippine Airlines will be flying to, Darwin, the smallest city, will be the only one to have daily flights to Manila.
That's quite funny!
I'm a little confused on the target market for the PER flights, considering I don't think the Filipino community here is extremely large. But the technical stop outlines that this flight is targeting O&D primarily. Being in an A320 for nearly 10 hours isn't going to be very fun either!
diesel33 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 294 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (2 months 3 weeks 1 day ago) and read 2437 times:
Quoting Ben175 (Reply 2): Being in an A320 for nearly 10 hours isn't going to be very fun either!
I was thinking the same thing. However, if they are allowed to deplane in Darwin, then I don't think it will be too bad. Even with the stop, it will still be the fastest way between Manila and Perth. But like you said, the market in Perth isn't that large and how often are they going to/from the Philippines? I'm interested to see what their insights into the market are...
Devilfish From Philippines, joined Jan 2006, 4427 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (2 months 3 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 2370 times:
Quoting Ben175 (Reply 2): But the technical stop outlines that this flight is targeting O&D primarily. Being in an A320 for nearly 10 hours isn't going to be very fun either!
Quoting diesel33 (Reply 3): However, if they are allowed to deplane in Darwin, then I don't think it will be too bad. Even with the stop, it will still be the fastest way between Manila and Perth.
Being the nearest city to MNL comfortably within the A320's full payload range, DRW is the most logical Oz entry and jump-off point to the other cities, and thus would get the most number of flights.....
Well don't forget that 190,000 non-Filipino Australians visited the Philippines last year, and this number has grown by 44% the last three years, and I believe the department of tourism are aiming at a continuation of this.
For example, Australians were the fifth largest international source of tourists last year at the Island resort of Boracay.
qantas077 From China, joined Jan 2004, 5745 posts, RR: 49 Reply 6, posted (2 months 3 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 1795 times:
Quoting Ben175 (Reply 2): I'm a little confused on the target market for the PER flights, considering I don't think the Filipino community here is extremely large.
what is it that confuses you? I'll give you the tip...shortage of skilled workers! lots of Filipino workers who are in the construction and mining fields.
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flyingdoc787 From United States of America, joined Jun 2012, 23 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (2 months 2 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 1169 times:
I really hope that PAL would try to develop MNL as a connecting hub. MNL has a good location for connections between Australia and Japan/Korea/China/Taiwan/(some) SE Asia. The timings for these flights allow for only a few good connections to/from Asian destinations, given PAL's current timings (e.g. HKG, PEK, BKK, but not TPE, PVG, ICN, or SGN, for example).
RWA380 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 2160 posts, RR: 4 Reply 11, posted (2 months 2 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 659 times:
Quoting diesel33 (Reply 3): I was thinking the same thing. However, if they are allowed to deplane in Darwin, then I don't think it will be too bad. Even with the stop, it will still be the fastest way between Manila and Perth. But like you said, the market in Perth isn't that large and how often are they going to/from the Philippines? I'm interested to see what their insights into the market are...
Indeed a long haul in an A320, I would not want to be the middle seat guy in Y. When you look at the map, DRW does look to be a perfect spot to enter Australia, too bad PR isn't going to use DRW as a transfer hub. However that still would add one extra stop to an itinerary, ie... PER-DRW-MNL-YVR-YYZ when one can go PER-DXB-YYZ all on a widebody too. I wish the best for PR, and they are successful in this endeavour. Also, if a PR A320 goes tech in PER, that is a long way from home.
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