Cebu Pacific (CEB) is targeting to vaccinate all its employees by October this year to ensure its passengers remain confident to travel.
In a statement, CEB said 90 percent of its pilots and cabin crew have now been vaccinated, following the completion of the first wave of its employee vaccination program. Second doses are expected to be administered in the coming months, with the target of completing inoculation in October.
“We stay on track with our goal to fully vaccinate all employees and third party workers by October this year. We know that health and safety are everyone’s top concerns and we want to keep doing what we can to ensure our passengers always feel confident flying with us,” said Felix Lopez, CEB vice president for people department.
To date, 88 percent of CEB’s total workforce have been inoculated. The airline’s very own employee vaccination initiative is part of the Gokongwei Group’s COVID Protect program, which covers the free inoculation of employees and their dependents, as well as third-party workers.
Last month, CEB flew its first flight manned by fully-vaccinated pilots and cabin crew. It expects to fly more of such flights as the program progresses.
To date, CEB as an official airline partner of the Ingat-Angat, a private-sector led campaign that promotes safety measures and vaccination, has transported over 16.5 million vaccine doses from abroad to the Philippines, on top of over 5.5 million doses flown to 23 provinces across the country.
In a related development, CEB said it has fully refunded P7.7 billion to its passengers who filed requests until June this year.
The airline overhauled its refund processes and augmented its refund-dedicated workforce, to process 991,764 refund requests with various forms of payment. – Myla Iglesias
