The low-cost airline company AirAsia is now setting foot for the first time in General Santos City, opening 3 flight routes to Cebu, Clark, and Manila.
Their Cebu flight will start on 29 March, and it will be daily. While their Clark and Manila flights will begin on 30 March every Tuesday, Thursdays, and Saturdays. The Cebu-GenSan flight will be at 1:45 PM, while the return flight will be at 3:25 PM. For their Clark-GenSan flight, the depart flights will be at 1:40 PM, while the return flight will be at 4:10 PM. However, their Manila-GenSan-Manila flight is yet to announced and will be available on their website, soon. Additional Info: I Love SOX PH My Mindanao, ABS CBN News
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A famous line from the Rotary Club suggests that we must be honest, even others are not, even others will not, and even others cannot.
Luzon Cisco is now trying to make an example, to become the most honest bus company there is. In their Facebook post, Luzon Cisco calls its patronizing passengers to visit their offices should they accidentally left their belonging on one of their buses, or on their bus terminals. Luzon Cisco says that passengers may send them a message through their official Facebook fan page. The company says that they have a dedicated "Lost and Found folder" where they store a reported lost item. Lost and found items are common on buses these days, especially when a passenger fell asleep, or during rush hours. The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) issues a memorandum that prohibits tricycles, pedicabs, and motorized pedicabs on national highways.
This new memorandum is on top of the previous memo, which was released back in 2007 that orders the same prohibition to three-wheeled vehicles on national highways. Stated on Memorandum Circular 2020 - 036, the ban was to assure the safety of each motorist on national highways, which usually takes a minimum speed of 40kph. DILG Secretary Edgardo Año had made a statement since 2018 and remembers the danger of these vehicles on national highways. “For safety reasons, no tricycle or pedicab should operate on national highways utilized by four-wheel vehicles greater than four tons and where the normal speed exceeds 40 kilometers per hour,” Año tells AutoIndustriya in 2018. Otherwise, tricycles may traverse the national highways, only if there are no alternate routes found. Source: AutoIndustriya The largest motorcycle hailing app in the country, Angkas is now bringing back their service in Cagayan De Oro City.
The relaunch had employs, 925 motorcycle drivers, in Cagayan De Oro. Angkas founder, Ms. Angeline Tham came to Cagayan De Oro to grace their relaunch earlier this day. She said that Angkas aims to professionalize the "habal-habal" industry in becoming safer, more efficient, and well-trained professional drivers to the public. "We are just providing alternative means of transportation to the people," Tham said. With Angkas drivers in Manila and Cebu, the motorcycle hailing app has now a total of 28,589 motorcycle drivers. Meanwhile, the battle for motorcycle taxis here in the Philippines continous since Republic Act 4136 prohibits motorcycles to become a public transport. But amendments are made at the congress to make motorcycle taxis legal in the country. Cagayan De Oro is Angkas' first reach in Mindanao. Additional info: Business Mirror, SunStar CDO PARTAS is now surmounting the other side of Northern Luzon as it makes way to Tuguegarao City last 18 February.
Currently, they have daily trips from Pasay to Tuguegarao, with a short stop-over along Cubao and Santiago City to pick-up passengers. On its first day of service, the company offered a free bus ride for a day to signal its entry service to the province. Chavit Singson, the founding owner of PARTAS graced the ceremonies on their first day of service in Tuguegarao. He is aware that the entry of his company in the area adds the fierce competition of buses in Cagayan Valley. But Singson said that PARTAS is there to offer public service. “We are not here for the competition but to offer public service,” Singson said. Aside from their Pasay to Tuguegarao bus service, they're about to serve its new route, Tuguegarao to Sta. Teresita, Cagayan. 15 bus units, all were Golden Dragon XML6122 "Triumph" are now ready to serve the said route. Sta. Teresita is one of the northernmost towns in Cagayan Valley Province. A bus ride from Tuguegarao takes less than 2 hours. Additional info: PNA As Philippine AirAsia enters service to Zamboanga, the low-cost airline will open direct flights from Zamboanga to Clark and Vice Versa.
It will be the first time that a commercial air service will link the Asia's Latin City to Clark, Pampanga. Online bookings and reservations are now available as flights shall begin in April 2020. The Clark-Zamboanga-Clark flights will be 4x a week, every Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays. From Clark, a depart flight will be at 1:40PM while the return flight from Zamboanga will be at 3:55PM Air Asia will also open direct flights Zamboanga to Cebu and Vice Versa. The Cebu-Zamboanga-Cebu flights will be daily. From Cebu, a depart flight will be at 11:05PM while the return flight from Zamboanga will be at 12:40PM. Both flights will be utilizing their Airbus A320. It's official, PARTAS will serve non-stop trips for Pasay - Tuguegarao via Roxas next week! The dominant bus company in Ilocos is ready to conquer the other side of Northern Luzon with its brand-new Golden Dragon XML6122 Triumph I buses. These buses are restroom equipped, with seats that have spacious leg rooms and have dedicated footrests. Each unit has 45 seating capacity, and they'll be deploying 15 units for this new route. A one-way fare starts at PhP 916.00. Passengers can now book online through Biyaheroes or can inquire at their Pasay Terminal. The bus will also pick up passengers along PARTAS' Cubao Terminal before heading to Tuguegarao.
Travel will start on 18 February. Schedule is as follows: From Tuguegarao City 9:00 AM (First Trip) 11:00 AM 1:00 PM 3:00 PM 5:00 PM 7:00 PM (Last trip) From Pasay* 7:00 PM 9:00 PM *as per booking info from Biyaheroes. We'll be updating this once there's an available new schedule As per introductory trips according to our source, PARTAS will offer this for free on its first day. Additional info: Tuguegarao Info Clapping whenever a plane lands aren't annoying after all. To clap is a social gesture to show approval and admiration to someone else. It is our way to appreciate the things we see, we feel, and we experience that is perfectly great and marvelous. For somehow, we also clap to the heroic deeds of our fellow. We appreciate their bravery, their effort to save others. And this is why some appreciate flights so much, that they applaud every successful plane landings that they've experience. Being a pilot is an uneasy task. The most dangerous part of their job is to land and taking off a plane. To sum up, all the fatal air accidents recorded in history, 49% of it happens during the final descent and landing phases of the average flight, while 14% of it happens during takeoff and initial climb. One major factor why these incidents happen is because pilots have less time to respond to problems that occur during takeoff and landing. Most of these accidents are the most unfortunate ones, ending up no survivors, or at least almost everyone got killed. In fact, the deadliest accident in Philippine Aviation history involves a plane landing. Air Philippines Flight 541 was about to approach Davao's Francisco Bangoy International Airport when a Cebu Pacific DC-9 aircraft was on the runway preparing its takeoff to Cebu. The Air Philippines flight had no choice but to run in circles before they'll be cleared for a landing. As it circled, the plane got slammed into a coconut tree and crashed a few miles west of the airport. The Boeing 737-2H4 caught fire and disintegrated, leaving with no survivors. All 124 passengers and 7 crew killed in the crash. Because of its risk, some passengers show their approval by clapping for the pilot's skill in achieving a safe landing. This is what Clark McPhail had thought about this, an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Illinois who studied much about applause. McPhail explained that we tend to clap without being asked to do so during concerts, pep rallies, speeches, and sporting events. The same thing as how would some appreciates every safe landing. With the recent air accidents we hear in the news recently, we must appreciate more with the pilot's skill for doing a job well done. For some reason, we are lucky to reach our destination safely. And heck, some people can't understand the appreciation of some passengers. A recent viral photo, telling everyone not to clap when a plane lands had earned a backlash from netizens, especially to those who had more experience in flight. However, we do understand their sentiment, the few who thought that a proper etiquette in flight means every passenger needs to tone down. But neither we can't please everyone, especially for those passengers who carry their infant child inside the plane. We cannot please everyone to behave and do the same manner as what most people do. But here's our tip. Should you don't want to hear the noises from these clappers, its best to adjust yourself for a while. Get a headset, listen to music, and the clapping may not bother you after all.
In the end, you must be thankful that the flight has landed safely. Otherwise, personalities like Kobe Bryant and our former President Diosdado Macapagal didn't, and they never get a chance to clap once again. Source: Mic, Business Insider, Aviation Safety Metro Manila's Nicholas Albert Transport will be having 19 units of Higer Low-Floor buses that will ply in the metro very soon. Part of their effort to comply with the government's transport modernization program, these buses will replace their current ordinary coach buses.
Soon as the papers for these buses are ready, Nicholas Albert will deploy these buses for public transport. Tacloban's Daniel Z. Romuladez Airport will become brand new, as the airport is slated to have its brand new facilities. Currently, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) is now building its Control Tower. A notice to proceed was given for its construction last 8 January, and construction was started a couple of weeks ago. Meanwhile, a proposal was made for the terminal building to be upgraded. In a report from SunStar, PhP 716 Million is slated to pour in for the Tacloban Airport's passenger terminal building. They're now working with the detailed engineering design to make the facility at par with global standards. On its recent update, a 3D render for the airport's passenger terminal was surfaced on Facebook. The design was inspired by the famous San Juanico Bridge, and is proposed to have 3 jetbridges, with an elevated road entrance, and has a large parking space. The structure accordingly is designed to withstand typhoons and earthquakes.
Congressman Martin Romualdez was happy that the DOTr is ever supportive of the airport. In his posting on Instagram last week, he bid that his fellow Taclobanons will be super happy about this development. To recall in 2013, the airport was heavily damaged by Typhoon Yolanda. The former terminal and the control tower were utterly demolished, making the operations of the airport limited to the public. |
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