Week of Nov. 30th: PAL FLYING DIRECT FROM MANILA TO TORONTO: RETURN FLIGHT
VIA VANCOUVER
MANILA, OCTOBER 5, 2012 (WORLD ROUTES ONLINE) Posted
30/09/2012 - Toronto Pearson Airport has confirmed that Philippine Airlines will
be starting service to The Canadian city of Toronto this autumn.
Direct services to Manila from Toronto Pearson are not currently available so
this is positive news for the more than 200,000 Filipinos living in the Toronto
area.
The service will be offered three times a week beginning on November 30, 2012
using a Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. The routing for the flights will be direct
from Manila to Toronto with the return flight going via Vancouver.
In 2011, Toronto Pearson handled 33.4 million passengers and is ranked 4th
largest in international passenger traffic in North America. The focus of
Toronto Pearson continues to be on competitiveness, growing the airport's status
as an international gateway, meeting the needs of its guests and ensuring the
long-term success of the organisation, its airline customers and the regional
economy.
EARLIER NEWS FROM ABS-CBN
PAL to realign Canada flight entitlements By Lenie
Lectura, BusinessMirror Posted at 09/03/2012 9:12 AM | Updated as of 09/03/2012
9:12 AM
MANILA,
Philippines - Philippine Airlines (PAL) is realigning its existing flight
entitlements for Vancouver to service another destination in Canada.
PAL President Ramon S. Ang said the flag carrier plans to start servicing the
Manila-Toronto route on November 30. "We will serve not only Vancouver but
Toronto as well," he said.
PAL is currently the only airline flying between the Philippines and Canada.
It was assigned seven entitlements for the Manila-Vancouver route.
PAL Officer in Charge for Commercial Group Rafael Rollan said the airline
will use three of the seven entitlements to service the Manila-Toronto route.
The remaining four will be used for services to Vancouver.
"There will be four entitlements for our Manila-Vancouver [route] and the
other three will be used to fly Manila to Toronto non-stop. The realignment of
flight frequencies will begin on November 30. As we speak, we are finalizing the
pricing. Maybe by mid-September the pricing will be uploaded in our web site
already," said Rollan in an interview.
PAL needs an additional seven flight entitlements on top of the existing
seven but there are no available entitlements. The Philippine air panel has yet
to set talks with its counterpart in Canada, said Rollan. "Ideally, if we can
secure another seven or more [entitlements], that is what we want," he added.
The airline is exhausting all means to secure entitlements to the North
American country. Rollan said PAL wrote to Air Canada to ask if PAL could borrow
the latter's entitlements since Air Canada is not flying to Manila.
"We wrote [Air Canada] but they have not responded to us. They have seven
unutilized entitlements. Hopefully, they could lend us their frequencies through
code-sharing because this arrangement was done before," said Rollan.
He explained that the additional entitlements inject the much-needed capacity
into PAL's Vancouver route, the only direct link between Canada and the
Philippines, and has long been sought by the sizable Filipino migrant community
in that country as well as by the business and leisure segments of the market.
"We want to test Toronto. We will try to develop the market," he added.
Ang earlier said, "in the near future, PAL will fly non-stop to Toronto,
Paris, New York City and in the Middle East." PAL plans to expand its fleet by
placing orders for 100 airplanes.
For the fiscal first quarter ending June, PAL reported a net income of $11.4
million, a turnaround from a net loss of $10.6 million registered in the same
period last year.
PAL's parent firm PAL Holdings also reported making gains in the fiscal first
quarter ending June amounting to P489.2 million from a net loss of P475.1
million posted the previous year.
Ang said PAL posted P256 million in profit in July as against a net loss of
P327 million in the same period last year.
"We expect this momentum to carry on but we can't tell you our target
numbers. Since we came in April this year confidence was restored, the company
became stable," he said.
San Miguel Equity Investments Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of San Miguel
Corp., acquired a stake in Lucio Tan owned firms Trustmark Holdings Corp. and
Zuma Holdings and Management Corp., the holding companies of PAL and Air
Philippines Corp. The investment is worth $500 million.
PHNO HEARD FROM THE GRAPEVINE: The PAL November 30
flight direct from Manila to Toronto Pearson Airport is almost fully booked, as
we speak, due to cut-down on passengers seats from other airlines. October 5,
2012.
Chief News Editor: Sol Jose Vanzi
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