Old routes, new routes
Old routes, new routes
December 2nd, 2024. Philippine Airlines is to resume its Cebu to Osaka service commencing December 22nd. The flight will operate three times a week on Sundays, Mondays, and Thursdays until February 26th when a fourth will be added on Wednesdays.
Flight number PR410 will take off from Cebu’s Mactan Airport at 11:45 and arrive at Kansai International Airport, Osaka at 17:00. The return leg, flight number PR409, will leave Osaka at 18:00 will land back in Cebu at 21:40.
“We are here to show that Philippine Airlines is committed to continue serving and growing the Kansai-Cebu market, a market that we first served more than twenty years ago,” said Bryan Ang, PAL’s regional head for Japan, Korea and Oceania.
New domestic flights
In anticipation of the festive season, the airline will resume its Clark to Siargao domestic service. Clark International Airport, known as Diosdado Macapagal International Airport serves Angeles City and Mabalacat in the Clark Freeport and Special Economic Zone. Siargao is a small, teardrop-shaped island off the northeast tip of Mindanao in the south
The flight will operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays with flight number PR2875 departing from Clark Airport at 11:00 and touching down at Del Carmen Siargao’s Sayak Airport at 13:05.
The return journey, flight number PR2876, will leave Siargao at 13:35 and arrive back at Clark at 15:40. The flight will utilise a De Havilland DHC-8 Dash 8 and will take a little over two hours.
From January 15th, 2025, the airline will introduce a new daily service between Manila and Cauayan City, about 140 kilometres northeast of Baguio. Flight number PR2018 will depart from Ninoy Aquino International Airport at 13:25 and land in Cauayan at 14:30.
The return leg, flight number PR2019, will take off from Cauayan at 15:25 and touch down in Manila at 16:40. The flight time is a little over one hour and also deploys the De Havilland DHC-8 Dash 8 aircraft.
Picture: De Havilland Canada DHC-8-Dash 8 by Gleb Osokin via Wikimedia Commons