PAL to launch Baguio-Cebu flights on December 16

Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) will launch trips between Baguio and Cebu on December 16, using the De Havilland Dash 8 Series 400 Next Generation turboprop.
 
PAL said the flights between the two destinations will be four times a week, or every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday.
 
The PR 2230 will leave Cebu at 8:50 a.m. and arrive in Baguio at 10:50 a.m., while the PR 2231 will leave Baguio at 11:10 a.m. and arrive in Cebu at 1 p.m.
 
“This will be PAL’s comeback to the very first destination we served nearly 82 years ago, so we are happy to be flying back to where it all started,” PAL president and chief operating officer Stanley Ng said in an emailed statement.
 
“At the same time, we’re inaugurating a brand-new service, linking two progressive tourist and business destinations – the Queen City of the South and the City of Pines,” he added.
 
The company’s first flight as a newly incorporated airline was a Manila-Baguio service flown out of the Neilson Airport in Manila on March 15, 1941, carrying five passengers to Baguio.
 
Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong in August said the company aims to resume commercial operations at the Loakan Airport by the Christmas season, with P68 million allotted for its rehabilitation.
 
In 2018, Magalong urged the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to shell out P160 million to revive the Loakan Airport.
 
Prior to the pandemic, diversified conglomerate San Miguel Corp. said it would submit an unsolicited proposal to rehabilitate and reopen the Loakan Airport to commercial flights. — VBL, GMA News