AirAsia Philippines increases flight frequency to VisMin

CEBU, Philippines — In anticipation of the travel surge for the holidays, AirAsia Philippines announced that it is increasing its flight frequency to its Visayas and Mindanao destinations.

“Our focus at AirAsia is to make sure our brand of affordable world-class air service is available to Filipinos during seasons they need it most. The growth in our number of flights to various destinations comes timely as we brace for the holiday exodus. And we aim to sustain this high demand going to 2023 by having promos like the PISO sale intended for travels happening next year,” said AirAsia Chief Executive Officer Ricky Isla.

The world’s best low-cost airline observes a robust upward trend toward end-year as it ends October with a 90 percent load factor – two percent shy of its pre-pandemic records in the same month.

Last November 1, AirAsia Philippines increased flight frequencies to the following destinations: Manila-Cebu: 56x; Manila-Tacloban: 35x; Manila - Caticlan: 34x; Manila to Cagayan De Oro, Davao, and Iloilo: 28x; Manila to Kalibo, Tagbilaran, and Puerto Princesa: 21x; and Manila-Zamboanga: 7x.  Meanwhile, weekly flights out of the AirAsia Cebu hub to Davao and Cagayan are now at 4x; Caticlan: 7x; and Puerto Princesa: 3x.

AirAsia Philippines is also expecting Filipinos to plan their international travels for the December holidays as early as November.  With this, weekly international flights from Manila to Bangkok (Don Mueang) have been increased to 11 times and to Seoul (Incheon) to 10 times.  Hong Kong flights were also increased to 3 times a week by December.

The airline, geared at sustaining the travel momentum into 2023, rolls out the third leg of its highly anticipated PISO Sale from November 07 to 13, slashing base fares down to P1 to metro cities like Cebu and Davao, or leading leisure destinations like Caticlan and Tagbilaran.

The PISO Sale is available for travels happening from May 1, 2023 to March 30, 2024. During the sale event, base fares to international destinations such as Kuala Lumpur, Osaka, Kota Kinabalu, Hong Kong, Seoul, Bangkok, and Bali also dropped to as low as P511.