Philippine Airlines has unveiled plans to launch
flights between Cebu and Baguio.
Scheduled to take off on 16 December 2022 with four flights per week
using Dash 8-400 aircraft, the service will link the commercial heart of
the Visayas with the City of Pines.
Flight PR2230 is scheduled to depart Mactan Cebu
(CEB) every Monday, Wednesday,
Friday and Sunday at 08:50, arriving at
Baguio Loakan Airport (BAG) at 10:50.
From Baguio, flight PR2231 is timed to depart the
same days at 11:10, arriving in Cebu
at 13:00.
“This will be PAL’s comeback to the very first
destination we served nearly 82 years ago, so we are happy to be
flying back to where it all started,” said PAL President and COO,
Captain Stanley K. Ng. “At the same time, we’re inaugurating a
brand-new service, linking two progressive tourist and business
destinations – the Queen City of the South and the City of Pines.”
PAL’s first flight as a newly incorporated airline
was a Manila-Baguio service flown out of Manila’s Neilson Airport
on 15 March 1941. The PAL Beechcraft Model 18 carried five
passengers to Baguio, ushering in the dawn of the aviation
age for Philippines and Asia.
“We laud the Department of Transportation, under
the leadership of Secretary Jaime J. Bautista and CAAP Director
General Manuel Antonio Tamayo, for upgrading Loakan Airport to
enable safe and reliable airline services to and from Baguio
City,” said Captain Ng. “We will work with the aviation
authorities, the local governments and the travel community to
make our Cebu-Baguio flights a success.”
PAL’s Cebu-Baguio route is the latest addition to
the flag carrier’s Mactan hub which includes a network of domestic flights
connecting Cebu to various cities in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
Philippine Airlines also operates flights between
Cebu and Tokyo Narita, Japan.
