Philippine Airlines

[Michael Parnham]

Well, if the prices were lower - and I was the only one flying - might give them a try as long as they stay out of Ukraine!

They don't know where Ukraine is!

[highlander01]

I'm off to Manila in December so am keeping an eye on the flight situation.

PAL don't have the rights ( ie aren't prepared to pay the grossly inflated Russian charges and / or bribe the right officials ) to fly over Russian airspace so at present the flight takes a big detour south over India adding 2 / 3 hours to the journey times.

http://www.businesstraveller.com/new...oute-to-europe

Reports are that this will change from August but the downside is that this allows PAL to change the plane they fly LHR-MNL to the Airbus A340 which is a poorer quality plane that the Boeing 777s that they fly at the moment.

http://www.philippineflightnetwork.c...n-service.html

[Michael Parnham]

I'm off to Manila in December so am keeping an eye on the flight situation.

PAL don't have the rights ( ie aren't prepared to pay the grossly inflated Russian charges and / or bribe the right officials ) to fly over Russian airspace so at present the flight takes a big detour south over India adding 2 / 3 hours to the journey times.

http://www.businesstraveller.com/new...oute-to-europe

Reports are that this will change from August but the downside is that this allows PAL to change the plane they fly LHR-MNL to the Airbus A340 which is a poorer quality plane that the Boeing 777s that they fly at the moment.

http://www.philippineflightnetwork.c...n-service.html

Are you flying with PAL?

[Trefor]

I'm off to Manila in December so am keeping an eye on the flight situation.

PAL don't have the rights ( ie aren't prepared to pay the grossly inflated Russian charges and / or bribe the right officials ) to fly over Russian airspace so at present the flight takes a big detour south over India adding 2 / 3 hours to the journey times.

http://www.businesstraveller.com/new...oute-to-europe

Reports are that this will change from August but the downside is that this allows PAL to change the plane they fly LHR-MNL to the Airbus A340 which is a poorer quality plane that the Boeing 777s that they fly at the moment.

http://www.philippineflightnetwork.c...n-service.html

Interesting to hear about the flight routes/times. I thought the PAL journey time was longer than it should be.

The A340 is a better plane than the 777, so don't worry about that.