Philippine Airlines (PAL), the national flag carrier of the Philippines, celebrates 75th anniversary this year and unveiled a new brand philosophy “Heart of the Filipino” on 15 March 2016. Its goal is to be the airline of choice in the markets it serves and to be the pride for Filipinos.
New Flights and New Fleet
The airline is considering four new destinations Paris, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Rome as part of its European route expansion plans. PAL’s new long-range A350-900s would allow it to offer more non-stop flights to Europe. Today it flies to only one European destination – London. It is adding six Airbus A350-900s to its fleet, increasing to 75 total number of aircraft. PAL is schedule to take delivery of five A320s, two B777s this year and two A321s in 2017. PAL currently has a fleet of B777s, A340s, A330s, A321s and A320s.
For its US network expansion, the airline began thrice weekly non-stop flights between Cebu and Los Angeles adding to its existing routes of Manila to Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Honolulu and Guam.
PAL will also launch five weekly flights from Manila to Doha, Qatar starting 28 March 2016 adding to its existing Middle east routes of Riyadh, Dubai, Dammam, Jeddah, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi.
In Oceania, PAL will open twice weekly flights to Saipan in the Northern Marianas Islands on 15 June 2016.
It will open daily services between Taipei and Kansai on 25 June and five weekly flights between Abu Dhabi and Doha on 28 March 2016. In January last year, it opened four weekly connections between Dubai and Kuwait as well as three weekly connections between Dubai and Jeddah.
Due to high demand on certain routes, PAL will increase its flights to Riyadh from six to seven from 27 March, to Darwin and Brisbane from three to four from 28 March, to Canton from four to five on 1 May, to London from five to six from 4 June and from six to seven from 28 June, to Taipei from seven to 11 from 25 June, to Kansai from seven to 14 from 25 June and to Peking from four to eight from 1 July.
PAL’s network covers 43 international and 30 domestic destinations.
Passenger Experience Improvements
PAL will introduce a couple of passenger experience improvements including:
- myPAL e-Suite inflight entertainment system will get upgraded content
- myPAL player inflight entertainment app that allows you to stream movies, music and television shows on your own mobile device
- myPAL WiFi lets you surf the internet inflight
- myPAL Mobile for roaming inflight to call and text using your mobile data plan
Inflight Dining
PAL will improve PAL’s inflight cuisine with collaborations between the Philippines’ top chefs such as Jess Sincioco, Fernando Aracama, Wataru Hikawa, Ben Lam, Bruce Lim, Yoon Yun Sun and PAL Corporate Chef Noel Ramos to introduce new entrees representing Filipino and continental dishes.
The Ultimate 75th Anniversary Seat Sale
It is also offering The Ultimate 75th Anniversary Seat Sale from 15 to 23 March 2016 for travel between 1 September 2016 and 10 December 2016 and 16 January to 10 February 2017.
Singapore – Manila roundtrip economy base fares are on sale at S$75 and S$750 for Business Class. Other routes are also on sale.
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