Ang Kape Ni LaTtEX

Cross-posted in FilipinoVoices.com Zest Air seems to have a lot of trouble dealing with the airport at Caticlan. Last week, a Zest Airways Xian MA-60 (RP-C8892) with 54 passengers overshot the runway, in a repeat of a similar, more damaging overshoot earlier this year. Unlike the previous incident where 3 of the 25 passengers were [...]

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Last year, several blogs pointed out the issue regarding Cebu Pacific’s lopsided policy regarding deaf passengers, which involves no less than two incidents, one in April in a flight to Caticlan, and another in December in a flight to Cebu, involving several deaf passengers. Through the efforts of blogger Kevin Ray Chua, the issue caught [...]

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Cross-posted from FilipinoVoices Disclosure: The author’s spouse owns and operates a travel agency, which may be construed (but the author hopes it is not) as to having an effect on the context of this post. There’s a fantastic story that came in yesterday afternoon about a Puerto Princesa fisherman being saved by a pod of [...]

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Two weeks ago in our return trip from Davao via Cebu Pacific, my wife checked-in her backpack, along with the boxes of durian and mangosteen we purchased as pasalubong. Around half-an hour later she was called back to the check-in counter. Apparently her backpack ended up in the cart of Philippine Airlines, without the claim [...]

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I don’t know what it is with me but for some reason, my opportunities to travel for work abroad, whether it be for a local or foreign employer, never seem to push through. Three years ago I was employed with a company that regularly sends employees to the US. I got fired from that post [...]

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With juice magnate Alfredo Yao’s acquisition of local airline Asian Spirit, it was not entirely unexpected that he would change the branding of the carrier. Considering that Asian Spirit has been the butt of jokes (“fly as an Asian, land as a Spirit”) it is not surprising that Yao would rebrand the airline. Asian Spirit [...]

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In light of my recent posts regarding Cebu Pacific, it has become obvious that it is attempting to repair a damaged public relations image, especially in the internet where the horror stories have persisted. It has become damaging enough that Cebu Pacific had to put up a blogging contest to counter it. I personally believe [...]

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In an amusing coincidence (see yesterday’s entry), I just learned that Cebu Pacific, in association with Word Camp Philippines, has sponsored a contest called the Cebu Pacific Blogging Challenge. The contest is open to all bloggers, although the prizes are yet to be specified; do read the official blog entry to read the mechanics. The [...]

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If you’re wondering what/who 5J is, it’s the IATA code of what seems to be everyone’s most loved airline today, Cebu Pacific. I’ve found out through one of the comments in this blog that someone has gone to the lengths of putting up a blog/website that compiles (or rather, links to) the worst-of-the-worst horror stories [...]

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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 [...]

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