Cebu Pacific to fly to Osaka
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Cebu Pacific will fly direct from Manila to Osaka, Japan three-times weekly starting on 20-Nov-08.
Using its 179-seater A320 aircraft, the new service departs every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday at 1:30pm and arrives in Osaka at 6:25pm. The return trip takes off at 7:10pm and arrives in Manila at 10:05pm.
Osaka is CEB’s first destination in Japan and it’s fifteenth in Asia after Bangkok, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kaohsiung, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Macau, Pusan, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, and Taipei.
Lance Y. Gokongwei, CEB President and CEO, said, “Japan has a very active and vibrant travel market. This service will be strategically important to the country’s tourism agenda and should also help us attain our goal of flying seven million passengers this year.”
He added, “The Manila-Osaka service will likewise allow our overseas Filipino workers to come home more frequently because of our trademark low fares. This will also generate interest among the Japanese market for our competitive medical and wellness tourism packages in the Philippines. ”
CEB is offering a one-way introductory fare of PHP1,999 on the Manila-Osaka route, a price cut of 70% from the current fares offered by other airlines. The seat sale will run from September 16 to 30, 2008 and is good for travel from 20-Nov to 18-Dec-08. Fare is non-refundable and exclusive of applicable surcharges and government taxes.
After the seat sale, the lowest year-round ‘Go’ fare is PHP3,999, still a price cut of 40% from the current fares offered by other airlines for this route.
CEB explained that passengers who avail of their ‘Go Lite’ fares can get PHP200 off of their fares.
(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 16-Sep-08
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