Cebu Pacific, the country’s number 1 airline in providing
affordable fares and tons of seat sales for “every Juan” is now offering its first ever long haul flight to
Filipinos. Today, January 17, Cebu Pacific has announced that direct flights to
Manila to Dubai have been added to
their list of international destinations. Flights will be daily and will start
on October 2013.
To celebrate the announcement, the budget carrier has launched
seat sale offering a base fare of 888 pesos one way. There are about 2,500
seats to offer on this sale, going from Manila to Dubai and vice versa.
I have tried to avail the promo and booked myself to visit
my sister in Dubai and I have quoted around ten thousand pesos for a round trip
flight. This was including the base fare (888 pesos one way), the web admin
fee, tax, the fuel surcharge and the baggage allowance fee. Not bad if you would
compare it to other carriers which offered about thirty thousand pesos one way,
the lowest price I could find.
Emirates Airlines, the only airline to offer direct flights
to Dubai before Cebu Pacific’s launch, has added an additional flight daily to
Dubai this January 2013.
The flight to Dubai will be 9-hour long and will be once a
day. Cebu Pacific Airline will use aircrafts called Airbus 330-300. The said
aircraft can handle up to 13-hour flight which means the biggest Budget carrier
in the Philippines may also offer flights to other parts of the world in the
future. Stay tune as CebuPac told that they will announce more international destinations
this 2013.
