Cebu Pacific Flies Kalibo–Hongkong

by MEGS S. LUNN

On March 23, 2012, the Cebu Pacific launched its international service in Kalibo with its maiden Kalibo-Hongkong flight at the Kalibo International Airport. It started with a launcheon-presscon attended by the different media entities from Aklan, Iloilo and Capiz, held at Café Latte, Andagao, Kalibo, Aklan.

According to Mr. Alexander Lao, “the launching reinforces our commitment to continue expanding the largest Philippine national flag carrier’s reach in the Asia-Pacific region, and promotes air travel to destinations not easily accessible to our passengers. We are committed to help tourism become an even more vibrant sector. We have considerably increased passenger traffic over the years. Our vision is primarily to bring travel closer to people, by offering affordable rates, and by linking islands and destinations through air transportation.

A lot of careful planning, hard work, and a dedicated team made Cebu Pacific the largest airline in the Philippines today. It offers flights to 33 local and 19 international destinations. Every destination we serve, every new route we start, every innovation we implement, is proof of our commitment to the vision that started this all. We also offer great value of service that propelled us to where we are today. It will continue no matter where we fly.”

CEO Lance Gokongwie and his company had been a proud catalyst of growth in tourism which is the backbone of our country’s premier industry – Tourism. They continually find ways to stimulate and initiate growth in air travel encouraging people to keep flying and enjoying the lowest possible rate on air transportation.

The Kalibo-Hong-kong flight will fly thrice weekly to depart Kalibo at 2:35 pm and arrive in Hongkong at 5:05 pm. Cebu Pacific also operates six (6) times daily flights to Hongkong from Manila, Cebu and Clark, offering the most connectivity, flights and routes to Hongkong than any other airline.

According to Michelle Eve De Guzman, asst. manager for Corporate Communications, “CEB has launched Manila-Hanoi flights last March 17, and Manila-Xiamen flights on March 23. It will launch Manila-Siem Reap flights on April 19, 2012.

Cebu Air Inc. is the largest carrier in the Philippine air transportation industry, offering its low-cost services to more destinations and routes with higher flight frequency within the Philippines than any other airline. /MP