Manila Standard Today
December 10, 2010
Philippine Airlines chalked up a significant uptick in flight bookings for the coming holidays following Malacanang’s appeal to the airline’s union to defer a strike.
PAL recorded a 10-percent hike in confirmed bookings for the month of December, of which over 90 percent has been issued confirmed tickets for Manila-inbound flights.
Based on sales data, almost all flights coming from the United States are full, registering the highest number of forward bookings, followed by those coming from Australia.
PAL’s traditionally packed flights every December are those coming from North America, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Between Christmas and New Year, PAL’s airplanes are filled with vacationers bound for Kalibo, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore and China.
Malacañang, through Executive Secretary Pacquito Ochoa, Jr., made a public appeal to the PAL Employees’ Association to defer any work stoppage while the Palace exhausts all means to resolve the PAL-PALEA labor dispute. Jeremiah de Guzman
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