Cebu Pacific now flies Cebu-GenSan-Cebu 3x a week!!
Grabe! Cebu Pacific has announced that it will now compete head-on with PAL Express by offering Cebu-Gensan-Cebu flights three times a week effective August 15, 2008!
A Cebu Pacific plane which just arrived at the GenSan International Airport. Notice the cars? Those are for the greeters of Pres. GMA when she visited the Tuna Capital last week.
According to Cebu Pacific’s press release:
Cebu Pacific is adding frequencies to its services from Manila to Bacolod, Tacloban, Cotabato, and Dipolog.
The airline will also expand its route network from Cebu with the launch of its direct Cebu-General Santos (GenSan) service starting 15-Aug-08.
CEB introduces the additional frequencies and announces its Cebu-GenSan operations with a seat sale which will run from 24-Jul-08 to 29-Jul-08. (Gosh! Tapos na! – BARILES) This is valid for travel from 15-Aug-08 to 30-Nov-08.
One-way fares to Bacolod, Tacloban and Cebu-GenSan is at PHP999 ‘all-in’ while fares to Cotabato and Dipolog is at PHP1,499 ‘all-in’.
Candice Iyog, CEB spokesman said, “We will continue to expand our operations and offer the lowest ‘all-inclusive’ fares especially to new CEB routes that have not been previously exposed to our low fares.”
The three-times weekly Cebu-GenSan service will operate every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The flight departs from Cebu at 10:30am and arrives in GenSan at 11:30am. It leaves GenSan at 12:00nn and arrives back in Cebu at 1:10pm.
CEB’s Manila-Bacolod service will grow from 21 to 24 flights weekly while its Manila-Tacloban service will increase from 21 to 25 flights weekly. The carrier will also increase its operations to Cotabato from five-times weekly to daily while Manila-Dipolog will grow from four times to five times weekly.
Now in its 13th year, CEB has the youngest aircraft fleet in the Philippines. It has a fleet of ten A319s, eight A320s, and two ATR72-500 aircraft.
So that makes it SIX FLIGHTS out of GenSan International Airport, 3x weekly. TODO NA ITO!
With that, am encouraging everyone from CEBU to book you tickets now and be here for the TUNA FESTIVAL which runs from August 29 to September 5, 2008!
LIPAD NA!!!
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This blog post must be worth at least a cup of cappuccino or a bottle of beer. Buy Bariles one now!
Bariles is Tagalog word for “Tuna”, the primary source of income of the people of General Santos City which hosts 6 of the Philippines’ 8 tuna canneries and more than 80% of its tuna processing plants.
joey gerona Says:
wow! bongga na masaya pa! biruin nyo ang dami ng available flights for ceb – ges – ceb sector, dati, you have to go to dvo pa get that flight, and even mnl – ges – mnl sector, you can have an early morning, noon or afternoon. . . there are winners here, we, the passengers, kasi there will be competition on fares, it will be lower…thanks sa cebu pacific !
Posted on July 30th, 2008 at 12:12 PM
bariles Says:
Joey, that is very true. I just hope their services will not suffer with the lowering of fares. Thanks for your comments.
Posted on July 30th, 2008 at 12:56 PM
Marz Says:
Mabuti na lang at mayroon nang Cebu Pacific. Puede na ako umuwi ng Iloilo via Cebu para mag-renew ng aking pagka-Ilonggo….. dahil mas mura na ang pamasahe. (joke)
Damu gid nga salamat, Cebu Pacific!
Posted on July 30th, 2008 at 1:07 PM
bariles Says:
Baw gid ya! Upud ko bi! Harhardehar!
Posted on July 30th, 2008 at 1:09 PM
orman Says:
wow parang hindi kayo nagkikitang dalawa no? kayo lang naguusap dito… bwahahahaha! kaasar nung nagpost about bodyfest ha. nagpigil lang ako – eh anonymous naman sya – lugi ako pag pinatulan ko!
Posted on July 30th, 2008 at 1:19 PM
gensanite Says:
i’m comin’ home na!!!
Posted on July 30th, 2008 at 1:37 PM
gensanite Says:
KUYA AVEL…
question lang po…
pakyawan pa rin ba ang taxi from airport to the city?
wala kayang posibleng project ang city tourism/tunafest council for free sakay from the airport to – let’s say – pioneer avenue for our guests for the tunafest? i mean it’s one way of rolling out the red carpet for them…
just thinking aloud…
cheers!
Posted on July 30th, 2008 at 1:45 PM
epm Says:
Then I will definitely visit Gen. Santos this September for the Tuna Festival 2008!
Posted on July 30th, 2008 at 5:52 PM
orman Says:
@ epm and gensanite : dapat EYEBALL party tayo when you all get here!!! sakin ang unang round!
Posted on July 30th, 2008 at 6:15 PM
dezz Says:
Good news to all travelers.
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Posted on July 30th, 2008 at 9:03 PM
gensanite Says:
@orman –
game!!!
addendum to a different post:
you really can’t please everyone noh?
well… in the real world, you can either be a ‘whiner’ or a ‘mover’… i’d rather be the latter – it’s more fun… though unappreciated at times, you somehow know that you did something good, made people happy, and added color to the event… how can you compare one whiner to a hundred happy people? it’s not your loss… or you can always say, ‘frankly, my dear, i don’t give a damn…” (quoted from: ‘gone with the wind’; a line by rhett butler played by clark gable)
Posted on July 31st, 2008 at 12:13 PM
gensan fanatic Says:
congratz! gsc airport… nadagdagan ang flight but ang cr mga sira sira na barado wlang tubig….mabaho…! nkakahiya sa bisita…at saka hope na ma renovate na lagyan man lng ng bridge papunta sa eroplano mainit kasi minsan ulan magpapayong pa…
Posted on July 31st, 2008 at 2:34 PM
orman Says:
very well said, gensanite! see you soon…now i owe you two bottles of beer! cheers!
Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 5:20 PM
gensanite Says:
@orman –
will look forward to it!!!
Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 6:01 PM
bariles Says:
hi gensanite! they will do it during the week of the tunafest from august 29 – september 7. they did it last kalilangan festival too. :0
Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Kimberly Says:
@orman – korek ka dyan Orms! no need to
stoop down to that level… just let it die a natural death! hehehe!
gusto ko nga sanang mag comment kasi ‘natuwa’ ako sa flow ng
discussions nyo at ng iba pa… kaso lang iba ako pag ‘matuwa’ eh…
i can be nice and can be rude! hahaha!
In fairness to the Tuna Bodyfest naman… it’s always one of the
highlights of the Tuna Festival and it’s been going on and still
going strong all this past few years… gensan peeps loves it, if
not all…at least the majority! o di sana matagal ng sinibak yan
at pinalitan ng ibang activity. In fact, i would love to watch that!
looks interesting! sana maabutan namin ni Ken.
Cheers to Tuna Bodyfest!
Posted on August 2nd, 2008 at 1:26 AM
Kimberly Says:
This is good news! at least Gensan got more flights to Manila.
Sana naman wala ng delay noh’! There was a time that i almost
missed my flight back to KL… via CebuPac all the way from
Gensan-Mla-KL. Kasi nga you have to travel pa from domestic
airport to NAIA for international flights. hay na lang!
Anyway, another good news is that CebuPac domestic and international
flights will operate at NAIA Terminal 3 starting August 1, 2008.
So, it’s very convenient na di vah! Lalo na sa mga katulad nating
jetsetter! hahaha! char!
Posted on August 2nd, 2008 at 1:33 AM
gensanite Says:
@bariles –
that’s great, TUNA MAN…
kudos to the organizers, and the people behind this project…
Posted on August 2nd, 2008 at 3:01 PM
Jake Says:
Before the press release of CEB’s GES-CEB flights, we were given new rates for the fuel surcharge and charges ng lahat ng routes ng Cebu Pacific… Nagulat ako may GES-CEB sector… After a few hours, may notice na ng seat sale para GES-CEB flights.. hehe kala ko ATR lang, Airbus A319 pala.. Well, yung first flight last Aug 15, 70+ lang ang pasahero.. sana mag aabot na ng 100 ang hopefully 150 para maging daily na rin ang service… Well for the GES-MNL flights naman, talagang kulang na ang 1 A320 daily service ng Cebu Pacific… Halos fully booked ang flights pag T-TH-SA-SU and more than 100 ang pax per leg ng flights kapag M-W-F.. Maga taga Cotabato minsan sa gensan na sumasakay kapag mahal ang fares ng Cotabato flights… Hehehe Go GEnSan, Go Cebu Pacific!
Posted on August 16th, 2008 at 8:10 PM
Toinks Says:
sana man lang lagyan na ng aerobridges and terminal bldg. ng Gensan International airport. para hindi na baktas ever pa mga passengers when boarding the aircraft…napaka primitive pa kasi ng aircraft ladder eh alam mo ‘yon?…at tsaka sobrang hirap pag umuulan…may gulay talaga…attention ATO!!!
Posted on August 16th, 2008 at 9:45 PM
White knight Says:
@Toinks –
This will happen soon toinks pag nakita na ng ATO na ang passengers & flights sa atin dito is keep on growing. Davao Airport didn’t have a good airport right away, they waited for many years and so with Iloilo. But look now at their airport, it may not be huge but its modern. Pero ang airport fee will also increase(ave. P200), so we are still lucky here.
It will happen to Gensan, to doubt.
Posted on September 3rd, 2008 at 9:21 AM
epm Says:
More roads leading to the airport should be built so that other people from nearby provinces can use our airport instead of going to Davao for their trip. Accessibility is really an issue.
Posted on October 17th, 2008 at 9:08 PM
epm Says:
I agree. Sometimes when it’s raining it’s really very inconvenient to the passengers. Not to mention that we’re paying for the terminal fee.
Posted on November 13th, 2008 at 3:41 AM