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Philippine Airlines Inc. |
Philippines is one of the most magnificent Asian countries of Asia. It is famed for its virgin d natural beauty in the form of lovely craggy mountains, roaring rivers with thundering waterfalls, fertile coastal plains, fine white sandy beaches, water cave formations and pristine blue waters. The people are gracious is their hospitality, the tourist infrastructure is well developed without being crassly commercialized and there is something for everybody. To visit and see this beautiful nation, the best way is to fly Philippine Airlines Inc.
Philippine has a lot many airlines. These are Air Link International Airways, 2GO, Asian Spirit, Air Philippine Airlines Inc., A Soriano Aviation, Asia Overnight Express, Cebu Pacific, Interisland Airlines, Pacificair, Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines, Corporate Air, Mosphil Aero, Pacific Pearl Airways, South East Asian Airlines, Philippine Airlines, Seair, Subic Seaplane, Subic Air, South Phoenix Airways and Tair Airways.
| Of the above airlines, Philippine Airlines Inc. is one of the most popular airlines in the Philippines. Philippine Airlines was earlier on known as Philippine Air Lines too. The full name was abbreviated to PAL. Founded in 1941, Philippine Airlines has its headquarters in Pasay City Philippine Airlines Inc.'s parent company is PAL Holdings,Inc. Philippine Airlines was the first commercial airline in Asia and the oldest still in operation. With the corporate slogan being "It's about experience", Philippine Airlines (abbreviated as PAL) is the national carrier of the Philippine nation.
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Philippine Airlines Inc.'s airport hubs are Mactan-Cebu International Airport in Cebu City and Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila. Philippine Airlines Inc.'s fleet size is 40 with 17 on order and two on ordered lease. The airlines flies to forty four major destinations It services eighteen domestic destinations in the Philippines and twenty six destinations in Australia, Canada, United States, East Asia and Southeast Asia.
The Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 badly affected PAL. The airline was forced to downsize its major international operations by completely cutting off flights to Europe and later evenSouthwest Asia. It also stopped all domestic services save for those routes that operated from Manila. It cut down on the fleet size and the jobs of of many thousands of employees were terminated.
In 1998, the airline was placed under receivership, gradually and painfully got its act together and exited receivership in 2007.
Philippine Airlines was the first Philippine airline to be accredited with the IOSA (IATA Operations Safety Audit) by the International Air Transport Association. It also fetched a three star rating from Skytrax.
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