CEBU Pacific (CEB) is keen on expanding its operations in Australia, Hong Kong and India on the back of growing passenger traffic.
The airline has asked the government to expand the bilateral agreements with Australia and with Hong Kong to allow local carriers add more flight frequencies.
Flight entitlements between the Philippines and Australia are fully allocated among local airlines.
“If we want to expand into Australia, in particular to the four key cities which are Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane, there has to be a change in the bilateral (agreement)…if we want to do Cebu to Melbourne, we couldn’t do that because of limited bilateral (entitlements),” Alexander Lao, Cebu Pacific president and chief commercial officer, told reporters recently.
CEB plans to expand its operations to India in the future.
The Philippines and South Korea recently agreed to increase their frequencies resulting in more flight allocations between the two countries.
From 20,000 weekly seats each from Manila to points in Korea and vice versa, entitlements were increased to 30,000 weekly seat capacity exclusively for Manila to Incheon and vice versa.
The two countries also impose no limits on flights from Manila to all other points in Korea. Flights from points outside Manila to all points in Korea continue to be open and without limits.
CEB is set to launch the Davao to Hong Kong route and restore direct flights from Iloilo to Singapore this October.
Starting on October 27, CEB will operate flights between Davao and Hong Kong four times weekly.
Iloilo to Singapore flights will commence on November 25 and operate three times weekly.
