Cebu Pacific planning SYD,BNE,MEL flights

[Jarden S]

Originally Posted by Andrew P

Meanwhile, Philippine Airlines is set to fly Perth and reintroduce Brisbane to its international network next year.[/i]

About time someone started a Perth- Manila flight. Shame Qantas not think of it. There is heaps of filipinos in WA and no direct flights to go home on. I reckon CX and SQ will loose heaps of connection traffic ex-Perth. I also heard PAL were considering serving Auckland as a big filipino market their also not served with direct flights. Will they operate these new Bne and Per routes with the new 777s due in sep or other aircraft?

[NickN]

I doubt you'd see a 777 on those routes. Even Sydney is only served with an A330. At best those destinations would see an A330, unless it's a 777 operating 3-4 days a week, then it may be possible.

[Will H]

Anyone hear anything new?

Originally Posted by Andrew P

Manila - Low cost airline Cebu Pacific, JG Summit Holdings (PSE), intends to convert its remaining A320 orders from Toulouse based aircraft manufacturer Airbus, to new generation A330-300 planes after receiving offers from the France based aircraft manufacturer.
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The airline will utilize initially the Airbus 320 aircraft on the route down under with fuel stop in Darwin, Australia.

This week at Paris Cebu ordered 5x more A320s. http://www.airbus.com/events/bourget...ers-to-15.html

[Andrew P]

http://www.cebupacificair.com/aboutu.../01312012.html


Philippines’ largest national flag carrier, Cebu Pacific (PSE:CEB) will commence long-haul flights in the 3rd quarter of 2013. The airline will lease up to 8 Airbus A330-300 aircraft to serve new markets beyond the range of CEB’s current fleet of Airbus A320 aircraft.

The Airbus A330 has a range of up to 11 hours which means CEB could serve markets such as Australia, Middle East, parts of Europe and the US. The aircraft is one of the most commonly used wide-body aircraft in operation today, given its highly reliable operating statistics.

[Andrew Johnson]

Heard DRW had really high costs. Kind of defeats the advantage of an LCC with Philipino wages & other costs, if have to pay huge costs for what is a tech stop.

[Andrew M]

Originally Posted by Andrew Johnson

Heard DRW had really high costs. Kind of defeats the advantage of an LCC with Philipino wages & other costs, if have to pay huge costs for what is a tech stop.

Can you please stop posting rubbish that you have no idea about.

You attempt to post rubbish as facts but it could be a question or a statement

Go away

[Andrew Johnson]

Doesn't DRW have high costs cf. other Australian airports ?

[Andrew P]

Andrew

suggest you read the 2012 press release, it's the plan to use a A330 which both QF & PR already use nonstop on the MNL-SYD run,

from an Airbus press release 5J intends to configuration the A330 all economy with over 400 seats

[Andrew P]

February 28, 2013

Cebu Pacific (CEB) is seeking the Civil Aeronautics Board’s (CAB) approval to fly Sydney and Melbourne in Australia from Manila, and to Moscow in Russia by 2014.

The airline intends to offer daily services to Australia using Airbus A330s starting February 2014 and is asking for additional seat entitlements to the land down under.

CEB is requesting permission to fly between Manila and Sydney every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, the available slots from existing bilateral. It also wants to offer flights between Sydney and Manila every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday which require amendments of existing Air Services Agreement between Australia and the Philippines. The airline is also looking to fly from Manila to Melbourne every Tuesday and Saturday and from Melbourne to Manila every Wednesday and Sunday.

It also asked CAB to give the Russian Federation entitlements to Moscow for it to launch Manila-Moscow route. CEB intends to fly between Manila and Moscow 4 times a week with an A330 aircraft. Philippine Airlines is also seeking Russian entitlements to Moscow.

[JamesL]

Link?