The country’s biggest budget airline is making an aggressive push for more flights, signaling the urgency to restart travel and tourism within the Philippines.
As the United Kingdom began vaccinating citizens—seen as a turnaround in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic—the Gokongwei family’s Cebu Pacific Air said time was running out for local businesses.
“We cannot afford to wait for the vaccine to get here before we start confidently flying again and restarting because of the impact of travel and tourism to the economy,” Candice Iyog, Cebu Pacific vice president for marketing and customer experience, said during a virtual briefing on Wednesday.
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