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Yahoo! Finance reports that Cebu Pacific ranked number one in passenger carriage growth among bugdet carriers:

CEB was also ranked by the magazine as No. 23 in the world and No. 5 in Asia in total passengers carried in 2007.
CEB carried a total of almost 5.5 million passengers in 2007, up 57.4 per cent from 2006. [...]

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Cross posted from .NET @ Kape ni LaTtEX
One of the main points of criticism against my rather controversial, death-threat worthy posts regarding Cebu Pacific’s dismal service and the involvement of software development company Navitaire was that they found my posts too negativist and tried to bully me into suggested that I criticize more constructively.
In that [...]

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In the ensuing comments in my previous post, Cebu Pacific’s monumental failure: A new online reservation system, several people questioned why I appeared to be singling out Navitaire and its online reservation system SkySales in the current Cebu Pacific brouhaha.
I gave thought to this after reading Aileen’s post on how she lost money because of [...]

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UPDATE: Due to the shortcomings of this initial post, I wrote a follow-up post entitled Cebu Pacific’s failure isn’t in the software, it’s on the phone.
Melynn, who operates I-NAV Travel & Tours, got pissed yesterday. She arrived at the Cebu Pacific ticketing office at 10 in the morning. By the time she was done, it [...]

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I’ve never had my own car.
Whenever I need a ride I’ve always borrowed my father’s 15 year old diesel pick-up truck, and as one can imagine, using it is an atrocity to the environment. Even with constant tuning and overhauls, it still spews out too much smoke in its low gears, and registers a poor [...]

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This has happened twice already this month alone.
We have had 2 sets of clients whose return flights, prior to their departure date, have been arbitrarily canceled, forcing those clients to rebook to an earlier or later flight that they did not prefer.
The first case was a client who went to Palawan and was supposed to [...]

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…but I’m not pushing through with it and it sucks
Melynn and I along with her barkada have been planning this trip for months, but the latest pair of typhoons, Lando and Mina come way too close of each other, and typhoon Mina threatens to become a super typhoon.
To further underscore the risks, a [...]

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When I first wrote Dreams of a Career Shift I remember seeing some TV clips regarding that very same topic — specifically about the 1 year A320 certification crash course given by the Clark Aviation School. It’s only recently that I’ve found a similar clip, albeit not precisely the one I got to see:

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Scobelizer posted a video from Consumerist.com featuring the hellish experience of Delta Airline passengers who had to withstand the following:

7 hour flight delay
A quartet of crying babies
A staff that gives all kinds of excuses and lies
No food
No option to go back to the terminal and pick another flight

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Ever considered dumping your current career for something you’ve always dreamed of?
I think a lot of people who would either jump at an opportunity to join showbiz, or start a business, if only they had the means and the guts (not to mention the talent) to do so. But we all know that these kinds [...]

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