Budget Airline Blog

The Philippine budget airline Cebu Pacific will start operating a direct fly between Macao and the central Philippine city of Cebu in April, the company announced Monday. The Cebu-Macao flight is initially twice a week (Tuesday and Saturday) starting from April 5 and will expand into a four-times weekly (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday) service beginning from May 8, 2008.

On most days, one-way fare between Macao and Cebu starts from 1,499 pesos (37.48 U.S. dollars) exclusive of taxes and surcharges, the airline said.

“We are happy to provide our Filipino overseas workers in Macao a direct service to Cebu that will easily link them to the islands in the Visayas and Mindanao. Our very low fares will allow them to come home more often,” Lance Gokongwei, president of Cebu Pacific, said in a statement.

Founded in 1996, Cebu Pacific overtook the Philippine Airlines to become the number one airline in the Philippines last year in terms of passengers delivered on domestic routes. It flies to 12 international destinations including three Chinese mainland cities– Xiamen, Shanghai and Guangzhou.