{"id":12855,"date":"2014-05-29T17:10:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T09:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=12855"},"modified":"2014-05-31T17:13:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T09:13:12","slug":"phl-canada-amend-air-agreement-flight-frequencies-doubled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/29\/phl-canada-amend-air-agreement-flight-frequencies-doubled\/","title":{"rendered":"PHL, Canada amend air agreement; flight frequencies doubled"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10359\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-philippines-flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10359\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-philippines-flag.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-philippines-flag.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-philippines-flag-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-philippines-flag-600x393.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Philippines and Canada have doubled the flight frequencies for each country, signing a new air agreement as a way of intensifying tourism and investments between the bilateral trading partners, the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Manila and Ottawa signed the deal Wednesday, revising the Philippine-Canada Air Services Agreement of December of 2008, said Carmelo Arcilla, CAB executive director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new agreement increased the frequency entitlement for each side from seven flights a week to 14,\u201d Arcilla stressed.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth freedom rights, which allow airlines from each signatory to carry passengers to third country destinations, were also increase to five a week from four even if Canada or the Philippines does not have an air service agreement with the third country.<\/p>\n<p>The CAB official noted only flag carrier Philippine Airlines flies to Canada seven times a week.<\/p>\n<p><i>Courtesy of GMA News<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippines and Canada have doubled the flight frequencies for each country, signing a new air agreement as a way of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,79],"tags":[398,9420,4349,3635],"class_list":["post-12855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-travel","tag-canada","tag-civil-aviation-authority-of-the-philippines","tag-flights","tag-philippine","mauthors-civil-aviation-authority-of-the-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855","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=12855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}