{"id":12103,"date":"2014-05-27T17:12:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T09:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=12103"},"modified":"2014-05-27T17:12:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T09:12:29","slug":"airasia-to-launch-more-manila-tacloban-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/27\/airasia-to-launch-more-manila-tacloban-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"AirAsia to launch more Manila-Tacloban flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11682\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/800px-AirAsia_X_Airbus_A330-300_Nazarinia-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11682\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/800px-AirAsia_X_Airbus_A330-300_Nazarinia-3.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Mehdi Nazarinia \/ Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/800px-AirAsia_X_Airbus_A330-300_Nazarinia-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/800px-AirAsia_X_Airbus_A330-300_Nazarinia-3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Mehdi Nazarinia \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TACLOBAN CITY &#8212; Banking on increasing demand for air travel, AirAsia&#8217;s big boss Tony Fernandes announced plans to add more flights from Manila to Tacloban.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes, president and chief executive officer of AirAsia Group, said in a recent press briefing here that the 90 percent load factor of Tacloban-Manila route after super typhoon Yolanda struck is very encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very positive of passenger growth for Tacloban. Our plan is to add two or three more flights as soon as the airport is fully operational,&#8221; Fernandes told reporters, adding that the airline is waiting for installation of navigational aids before launching night flights.<\/p>\n<p>The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) is targeting to complete immediate rehabilitation project for storm-hit Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport within two months.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, AirAsia flies to Tacloban from Manila three times daily, carrying about 800 to 1,000 passengers. Each flight carries 140 to 170 travelers.<\/p>\n<p>The airline is bullish of 50 percent passenger volume growth for 2014 to about three million from two million last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TACLOBAN CITY &#8212; Banking on increasing demand for air travel, AirAsia&#8217;s big boss Tony Fernandes announced plans to add more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95,79],"tags":[2887,2888,1338,336],"class_list":["post-12103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","category-travel","tag-airasia","tag-airline","tag-tacloban","tag-tourism","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}