Spirit of Manila Airlines gets nod to fly to 5 Asian, ME destinations

The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) has approved the petition of Spirit of Manila Airlines to fly to two destinations in Asia and three destinations in the Middle East.

In five separate filings, the Pampanga-based airline sought the CAB’s approval to fly to Macau in China, Taipei in Taiwan, Kuwait, Bahrain and Dubai in the Middle East. This approval makes Spirit of Manila the newest International scheduled airline of the Philippines and the second Philippine carrier to fly to the Middle East.

Spirit of Manila is the latest Filipino-owned airline company offering scheduled international passenger services from Manila to key Asian and Middle Eastern countries. The airline is based in the Clark Special Economic Zone at Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) in Clark Field, Pampanga.

Spirit of Manila is designed for Filipino and international travellers, offering safe, reliable and on-time airline services through its experienced and dedicated staff whose objective is to satisfy the expectations of its passengers. The airline offers budget fares and other affordable fare schemes to cater to the overseas Filipino worker market. 

Company officials said “That with this approval, it will strengthen Spirit of Manila’s presence in Clark giving more available flights to OFWs and travelers based in the Central and Northern Luzon areas, and make the Philippines an even more attractive destination for tourism and trade.”

About 533,000 passengers flew through Clark’s sprawling Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in 2007. Clark International Airport Corp. plans to build a P4-billion terminal in the former US base that can accommodate three million passengers yearly by year 2010.