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<\/p>\nFlying just got even more convenient as Philippine Airlines and the Department of Tourism had formally launched direct flight from Singapore to Cebu.<\/p>\n
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(L-R)\u00a0PAL Visayas Area Head Reyani Romano; PAL DOT Region 7 OIC Judy Gabato, PAL SAVP Philippine Sales Harry Inoferio, PAL VP Sales Ryan Uy and PAL AVP Mabuhay Miles Loyalty Program Mayette Casanova. Image from\u00a0Philippine Airlines<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The DOT sealed the deal with PAL as part of its route development program and policy thrust of Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo to further develop and promote international gateways in the country.<\/p>\n The launching was initiated with PAL PR 518\u2019s maiden flight from Changi International Airport to Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) at 2:45 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo says \u00a0\u201cThe lifeblood of Philippine tourism is connectivity. We are an archipelago and most of the tourists can reach us only by air\u201d and that is why they are considering initiatives like this as critical to the continuing development on our tourism market, thus opening more gateways, inviting wider access for visitors\/travellers.<\/p>\n Teo added\u00a0that the launching of the new flights to and from Singapore is expected to boost Cebu as a tourist destination and international gateway in the Visayas region.<\/p>\n PAL\u2019s Singapore-Cebu flights are now available four times a week. Singapore to Cebu flights are available Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, while Cebu to Singapore trips are on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Not only that, PAL also joins Air Asia, Silk Air, Cebu Pacific, and Tiger Airways in serving Cebu to Singapore destination bringing the total number of flights from MCIA to Singapore to 31<\/p>\n Sources: Philippine Airlines’ Facebook page<\/a>, \u00a0Philippine Star<\/a>, manilatimes.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Philippine Airlines and the Department of Tourism had formally launched direct flight from Singapore to Cebu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1072,539,684,683,1535],"class_list":["post-11086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-cebu","tag-department-of-tourism","tag-pal","tag-philippine-airlines","tag-singapore"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/pal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11086"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11093,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11086\/revisions\/11093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}