Philippine Airlines to Launch Cebu - Baguio Flights in December

(28/10/22)  Philippine Airlines has unveiled plans to launch flights between Cebu and Baguio.

Scheduled to take off on 16 December 2022 with four flights per week using Dash 8-400 aircraft, the service will link the commercial heart of the Visayas with the City of Pines.

Flight PR2230 is scheduled to depart Mactan Cebu (CEB) every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 08:50, arriving at Baguio Loakan Airport (BAG) at 10:50.

From Baguio, flight PR2231 is timed to depart the same days at 11:10, arriving in Cebu at 13:00.

Philippine Airlines Dash 8 reg: RP-C5907

"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,” said PAL President and COO, Captain Stanley K. Ng. “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.”

PAL’s first flight as a newly incorporated airline was a Manila-Baguio service flown out of Manila’s Neilson Airport on 15 March 1941. The PAL Beechcraft Model 18 carried five passengers to Baguio, ushering in the dawn of the aviation age for Philippines and Asia.

“We laud the Department of Transportation, under the leadership of Secretary Jaime J. Bautista and CAAP Director General Manuel Antonio Tamayo, for upgrading Loakan Airport to enable safe and reliable airline services to and from Baguio City,” said Captain Ng. “We will work with the aviation authorities, the local governments and the travel community to make our Cebu-Baguio flights a success.”

PAL’s Cebu-Baguio route is the latest addition to the flag carrier’s Mactan hub which includes a network of domestic flights connecting Cebu to various cities in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

Philippine Airlines also operates flights between Cebu and Tokyo Narita, Japan.

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