MABUHAY NIGHT. Philippine Airlines and Mabuhay Miles – PAL’s loyalty program for frequent flyers – co-sponsor a free-admission Mabuhay Night party at Kalibo’s Magsaysay Park that kicked off the week-long Ati-Atihan festival. Guest performers entertained a huge crowd, ahead of the series of Ati-Atihan parades and street dancing.

Philippine Airlines said it expects to complete the construction of a “mega” Mabuhay Lounge at Ninoy Aquino International Airport by the second quarter. PAL said it started the construction of a two-level International Mabuhay Lounge at Naia Terminal 2 that would showcase the best of Filipino food and offer world-class amenities including private work stations, a meeting room, sleeping pods, showers, changing rooms and a massage room.PAL aims to offer top-notch service and comfort that could redefine the experience of the airline’s business class passengers and frequent flyers, it said. The flag carrier now offers nonstop flights from Manila to Toronto, London, Auckland, Vancouver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Honolulu and Melbourne. It also operates the only daily nonstop flights to Sydney and four weekly services to New York JFK via Vancouver. The airline led by tycoon Lucio Tan said it would deploy new Airbus A321 NEOs by February and A350s by June for Brisbane in Australia, India and the US East Coast. PAL received seven airplanes in 2017, including five Bombardier Q400 turboprops for inter-island flights and two Boeing 777-300ERs for long-haul routes.PAL’s complete fleet of ten 777s now fly to North America and London. The airline also operated its first international flight to Clark with the arrival of an A321 from Seoul. Other new routes include Seoul-Tagbilaran, Chengdu-Kalibo, Chengdu-Cebu, Manila-Kuala Lumpur, Cebu-Beijing and Cebu-Bangkok. PAL flies from Clark to Bacolod, Basco, Busuanga, Calbayog, Catarman, Cagayan de Oro, Caticlan, Cebu, Davao, Masbate, Puerto Princesa, Tagbilaran, Virac and Seoul. From Davao, PAL opened three new routes (Davao to Tagbilaran, Cagayan de Oro and Zamboanga) using the new Q400s. Ten domestic routes were opened from Cebu – Siargao and Camiguin (new PAL destinations) as well as to Cagayan de Oro, Caticlan, Legazpi, Ozamiz, Puerto Princesa, Surigao, Tacloban and Tagbilaran.