Local budget carrier Zest Airways has suspended its daily chartered flights between Kalibo, Aklan, and Taipei amid the ongoing bitter tensions between the Philippines and Taiwan.
The escalating row between Taiwan and Philippines and Taipei has started to spill over into the country’s tourism sector, with some airline and hotel operators starting to express concern and others already feeling the pinch in the wake of the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman in Philippine waters.
Philippine Airlines passengers in a couple of months will be able to call, text, tweet, email and surf the Internet while flying across Asia Pacific, Australasia and North America as the airlines becomes the first Philippine-based carrier to offer passengers both GSM and Wi-Fi Internet.
International flight arrivals at the Iloilo airport continued to increase at the start of this year, boosting optimism in the tourism industry of the city and province of Iloilo.
Get the country’s airlines off the watch lists of the United States and the European Union, and watch the Philippines soar, President Aquino told aviation officials, on Monday, during the fifth anniversary of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP).
Members of a choral group of street children will fly to Paris to perform at the opening of a major exhibit of Philippine art and artifacts.
After more than five years, local airlines may soon be allowed once again to fly to Europe and expand operations in the United States after the government successfully passed a safety audit by the world’s aviation regulatory body.
Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez Jr. said the Philippines would likely score a small portion of new airline routes in its participation as an exhibitor for the first time in a global event staged to determine the future of air services.
Air Philippines and Cebu Pacific extended on Wednesday, their free re-booking promo for their passengers who missed their flights because of bad weather, floods and heavy traffic in roads leading to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
A Singapore-bound commercial aircraft made an emergency landing at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Wednesday afternoon due to a technical problem.
Media personality Ramon Tulfo was not the only one who took some damage following the infamous tiff with celebrity couple Raymart Santiago and Claudine Baretto.
An “unruly” Filipino passenger, said to be one of the country’s special envoys, was off-loaded, on Monday, from a Hong Kong-bound flight of Cathay Pacific.
