https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1221859 Apart from Seattle, Cebu-Osaka and Manila-Sapporo are also planned to be resuming this year. In other recent news articles, outide of PR, looks like after postponing the propsed MNL service in December 2023 for unknown reasons, looks like VN is finally launch...
Jump to postSMC plans to start airport facilities work at its NMIA project in Bulakan next year -- but didn't say exactly when next year..... :arrow: https://www.philstar.com/business/2024/03/16/2340873/smc-start-bulacan-airport-development-2025 Quote: "MANILA, Philippines — Diversified conglomerate San M...
Jump to postfilipinoavgeek wrote:If the A338 was officially discontinued by Airbus, how would you react?
There’s a rumor that even PR is considering the 737-8 as a result of the engine woes They’re not a stranger to the 737 family, having operated the 737-300 and 737-400 in the past. Plus the 737-8 can comfortably do PER and BNE, two routes that suffer whenever an A321neo goes tech. And it can do DEL a...
Jump to postI just hope the 77W is not too large for the MNL route. Well, United used 744 s there before in competition with Northwest , when international travel into the country was not as big yet..... 0509355 If anything, the 77W will fly the route at the start of the peak holiday season, so demand can be p...
Jump to postAll this talk of “low-yielding this” and “high-yielding that”. Y’all talk as if there aren’t a good number of American companies that have outsourced operations to the Philippines. The business traffic exists. And for all these people turning their noses up at price-sensitive VFR, well, during the p...
Jump to postif PAL continues to convert their A333s to the SMC configuration - the more they will be snatched off their market by the ME3 and 5J, both are cheaper, the former fly in comfort in economy and the latter fly cheaper no difference. PAL already consistently sends 9ab planes to the Middle East. ME3 fl...
Jump to postSo...the NAIA T2 Annex plan is back in the news..... :o https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/03/27/phl-village-hotel-issue-still-blocking-naia-2-expansion/ https://businessmirror.com.ph/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Philippine-Village-Hotel-NAIA-Complex-800x462.jpg https://businessmirror.com.ph/wp-conte...
Jump to postLooking recently at flights to Manila from Europe, I am amazed at the high prices. This is of course due to the pandemic, but there is something specific to flights into The Philippines. From Brussels, flights to HKG, BKK, KUL, SGN as examples are back to earlier pre-pandemic price levels, whereas ...
Jump to postAt the end of the day, the cap on incoming passengers is hurting local airlines. PAL has a very small quota to work with. They can’t sustain an international network with departures alone. PAL will have to rely on domestic flights, and even that market has shrunk.
Jump to postI'm going to be frank here, this is partly true. Mentioning the A338 once? Pretty harmless. But going to multiple airline threads (not just PR's) praising the A338 and essentially begging airlines to order it? Yes, it can be annoying when done repeatedly over a long period of time. It's kind of sim...
Jump to postYeah I guest you do have a point about some memebers pushing for there favorite aircraft and I'm not against those expressing pushing there desire aircraft to any airlines. In fact I really would like PAL to order the A220-300 which can be operated by PAL Express on its secondary domestic hub like ...
Jump to postThey may have to re-evaluate that view in the face of current realities which are expected to prevail for some time to come. Lower CASM loses much of its appeal when they pay higher lease rates and fees for flying a bigger, half-empty plane...as both airlines are now finding. At least for PR , it c...
Jump to postVery interesting. Having AA put its code on MNL-GUM is a slap in UA’s face. The agreement pretty much bolsters PAL’s LAX ops and AA’s NRT ops (though how much service does AA still have at NRT that they haven’t shuffled over to HND yet? And will the Japanese government and/or NH permit an AA code on...
Jump to postDude, this is an aviation forum. We like planes. Some more than others. Just as there are fans of the 717 and the 764, the A338 will have at least one cheerleader. Nothing wrong with that. Thank you. :smile: In any case, PR isn’t very likely to get the A338 as they’ve done the long-and-thin thing w...
Jump to postYou're still thinking that PR or anyone else is going to order the A338? It's frankly probably time to stop hoping that major carriers are going to buy A338s at this point. It's sold extremely poorly for a reason. If PR or other airlines wanted to buy the A338, they would have done so by now. Only ...
Jump to postedealinfo wrote:Hi,
I visited Taal volcano 3 years ago.l was on the rim and there was a lake in the center. What happened to the lake? Did the water just evaporate overnight or was it expelled outwards as steam?
Thanks for the trip report! CX catering seems to be slipping; on my Europe-HKG flight a few days ago, they served chicken that felt like a gas station meal, and later on, noodles that looked sad and overcooked. My connecting flight to Asia didn’t offer better offerings. The misses are starting to ad...
Jump to postA 275t A339 would logically be more competitive than this A343NEO. Not quite. A339 would be directly matched against 359. And not bring anything new but a few problems to solve. A349 (let's call it that way) would have a couple of things not provided by A359. It would benefit from 4 holes in terms ...
Jump to postIs anyone else here getting fed up with all the negativity towards the Philippines here on A.net? PR's upcoming CEB-LAX and MNL-SEA flights are being discussed in another thread and as usual, the responses are quite negative with the usual "trash yields" and "VFR traffic" talkin...
Jump to postA little nugget noted in DOT filing where United is opposing an Air Philippines codeshare application. 2. While United is not opposed in principle to APC’s requested authority, United objects to the application to the extent it seeks benefits that are currently being denied to United and its custom...
Jump to postI beg to differ. The redevelopment scheme presented above shows how the capacity and efficiency of NAIA can be vastly improved by diligent, thoroughly thought out solutions (not least of which the NATS study to increase safety and ATM/hr there.) Functional and convenient transiting facilities are t...
Jump to postThe anti-NAIA talk over at SkyscraperCity is getting really tiring. They're really insisting on NAIA being closed down and even saying that (to paraphrase) they want to "end the Aquino name". Regardless of your political leanings (and I'm not trying to be political here), but I can't help...
Jump to postNothing really new here TBH.... The big news to me is this is happening from Brussels Midi and not Brussels Main (Centraal). I mean, has anyone realized JUST HOW SHADY the station and surrounding neighborhood is??? I'd think about going there alone whilst having to drag my cases along, and [obvious...
Jump to postNothing really new here TBH.... The big news to me is this is happening from Brussels Midi and not Brussels Main (Centraal). I mean, has anyone realized JUST HOW SHADY the station and surrounding neighborhood is??? I'd think about going there alone whilst having to drag my cases along, and [obvious...
Jump to postIt’s actually quite amazing at how adding a BRU leg to almost any nonstop flight from AMS will immediately depress the price. It can almost encourage a person to just take a train to BRU from the Netherlands to catch the cheaper flight.
Jump to postAs said many times previously, a full plane does not equal profit in the airline industry. While a "full plane" may look good, it can still lose money per flight if the yields are very low (aka price sensitive VFR (Visiting Family Relatives)) passengers travelling mostly on discounted tic...
Jump to postThe runway-taxiway separation is a manageable challenge, what’s not is the lack of A380-capable terminal infrastructure at the moment. Terminal 3 has no upper deck aerobridge and the gates barely have enough room for 400 passengers on their 777s, let alone 600. Even at 1AM-3AM, this would be an ope...
Jump to postAs said many times previously, a full plane does not equal profit in the airline industry. While a "full plane" may look good, it can still lose money per flight if the yields are very low (aka price sensitive VFR (Visiting Family Relatives)) passengers travelling mostly on discounted tic...
Jump to postThis again is another miscue by Delta as there are many travers from Detroit to the Philippines that will not be able to use Delta unless they chose some sort of convoluted connection on Delta. They are trying to manipulate traffic patterns to suit their needs rather than the customer needs and tha...
Jump to postYou could make a very good case for closing NAIA on the grounds that it would be redundant once Bulakan phase 1 opens. 5 potential airports have been suggested although Subic should be discounted as it only serves Zambales province that cannot equally well be served by CRK. SGL will only be usable ...
Jump to postJust saw this: https://centreforaviation.com/analysis/reports/philippine-airlines-long-haul-adjustments---first-drop-london-478183 PAL is better off launching Paris & Frankfurt which actually has PDEW demand to the Philippines with Frankfurt first. There is A LOT of German business in the Phili...
Jump to postBKK and Thailand in general are low yielding markets with lesser premium demand, partly the reason why the ULR flights to USA ports failed. Strange then that PR's North America services still survive despite the Philippines being said to be a low yielding market, perhaps even moreso than Thailand. ...
Jump to postThey need a stronger presence in british tv.they must push themselves to take peoples attention. They'll lose more by opening a route to paris.the aviation hub of europe is london.people will be upset again.i hope they will not open new routes to europe, just to stay in london. Paris is in the sche...
Jump to postOne thing to remember about the CAPA piece: their source is Mr. Bautista, who has now retired. We don’t really know the direction of new management. I do know that PAL wanted a partnership with AF. And that they even got CDG slots. They were ready to launch CDG and FCO this year... then they got col...
Jump to postSleeplessInZh wrote:This is the biggest joke ever! They better stay in london!
https://centreforaviation.com/analysis/ ... don-478183
A321XLR or LR makes more sense for PR than 5J, 5J for now should stick to their bread-and-butter which is domestic and regional. Don't really see why they had to order the A330neo now when they still have a bunch of relatively new A330s flying around and IIRC they have no plans of expanding long-ha...
Jump to postEven with limited road access, you can see how simple proximity is going to draw the turboprop ops from CRK to SGY. I certainly hope that the hassles of road travel and ferry transfer would not discourage people from using SGL ...that demand could outgrow the small facility. :crossfingers: https://...
Jump to postGiven the tight schedule, DOTr's USec says only a " basic facility " like the San Vicente terminal in Palawan could be opened at SGL by November. Haven't they been working on this for almost a year and a half now..... :confused: ..... There’s only enough space in Sangley’s landslide for a...
Jump to postIs this the last of the Delta 5th freedom routes? Sad to see the international network of Delta shrink from the glory days I think they still operate NRT-MNL but yes there isn't much left anymore. And both of those are probably gone in 2020 once DL shifts to HND. Is NRT-MNL mostly low-yielding, Jap...
Jump to postI really don't understand why PR didn't order the A321LR as soon as it became up for order. They don’t exactly need the range of the LR. The LR can probably do just MEL in addition to other points that a regular NEO can already do. Besides, the availability of the regular NEO was already delayed, a...
Jump to postSingapore will have an all-lie flat seating in business class by 2022.even their Silk air with the narrowbodies.I hope PAL is not making the mistake to install recliners in A321neos AFC.PAL should follow Singapore Airlines Strategy. They will WOW the world, they shouldn't lose this opportunity, by ...
Jump to postEven though much of the traffic will indeed shift to HND, is DO really going to drop NRT in its entirety? Surely there’s still a market for 767 service from HNL and a mainland gateway like SEA or MSP that can maintain NRT as a mini scissor-hub for SIN and MNL. In any case, I doubt either flight will...
Jump to postI still find it strange that a smaller airline like PR flies to the US and Canada and make its Transpacific routes work (even if at a loss, although historically this wasn't the case, only in more recent years), while apart from SQ, even large Southeast Asian airlines like MH, TG, GI, or VN can't m...
Jump to postIf you're going to NEO the A340, the 500/600 would be the wrong ones to do, because their payload/range is already pretty good, so you'd just have a heavy ULH machine. The 343 is structurally most efficient, and has engines in the size bucket you could use. In that case, you remove 4x CFM56-5C with...
Jump to postHas PAL shelved plans to add ORD? I haven’t seen any talk of ORD for a while now. Unless they decide to firm up the A350 options, their current fleet can’t do much expansion. They opted to raise frequency to the west coast instead of starting new routes. In any case, ORD is a bloodbath. SAN and SEA...
Jump to postIt depends on the hub they plan to use. No problem for the aircraft on PKX-JFK but I am not sure CAAC will grant it that route. There is a big problem for CAN-JFK; I am not sure how profitable the route will be after the payload hits in order to make it work. CAN-JFK-CAN would be absolutely impossi...
Jump to postNew analysis from CAPA regarding PHL-North Asia market https://centreforaviation.com/analysis/reports/philippines-north-asia-aviation-market-lccs-drive-rapid-growth-469736 Summary -Philippines-North Asia seat capacity has grown by almost 20% over the past year and by almost 70% over the past four y...
Jump to postIf the NMA is something 767-sized, Airbus might be better off responding with what killed the 767: the A332. A clean sheet a332-sized plane with next generation engines might be what Airbus will need to take the 787 market back. Targeting the 787-8 replacement cycle might be a better idea than going...
Jump to postThe O/D numbers between DOH and MNL don’t justify the extra frequencies that QR is asking for. No country is obliged to open their most congested airport to a sixth freedom carrier. And those other carriers you mentioned... there’s healthy competition on the routes that they serve. Not the case wit...
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