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Yes they have premium economy
They have interesting promos as well. Usually a couple of days before the flight they will offer you an opportunity (by email) to "bid" on upgrading to business class seat.
I bid on an upgrade. I was using my smart phone where I can't read sh!t. Here's my story. The actual cost elude so I'll just make them up.
Business Class costs 50,000 pesos, Economy Class costs 20,000 pesos. To make a bid their display has a slider you drag to the price you are willing to bid. The slider starts at 21,000 pesos and goes up. Their website "gives" the impression your bid will be the total cost of the ticket.
So.....
I was willing to pay 26,000 pesos to sit at the from of the bus. My bid was accepted. Great, yahoo, jubilation.
When the credit card bill arrived it was 46,000 pesos.

BS PS you have to pay for wifi, even in business class.

 

Back in my travelling for work days if i was heading to the Middle East or North Africa it would be Qatar out of Cebu.. Then onward would usually be on Emirates.. both good airlines, new planes and decent food.. Houston area, Mexico or South America would be Japan or ANA out of Cebu to Narita, then Continental to Houston and beyond. UK or Europe was always Cathay Pacific out of Cebu to Hong Kong, then onward to London on Cathay also..

 

One thing that concerns me is all these planes sitting idol at the moment.

When and if they finally get through this and decide they need to use these idol planes lets hope they check under the hood.

 

Talking pre-quarantine, the FastCraft (locally, pronounced "pass-crap") 5 a.m. from Sibulan downtown port, connecting to a bus at Lilo-an, Santander, arriving Cebu about 9 a.m. Likewise, Ceres from Dumaguete terminal would be on a ro-ro somewhat north of Sibulan port when it sails at 5 a.m. So departing Dumaguete 4 a.m. or so.

 

Ooooops...mea culpa, I mean the shuttle flight. Cebu traffic is a ‘mare. Takes hours just to get through the place let alone drive on to Santander.

 

PAL is pretty much a criminal organization from my perspective. I generally fly Emirates into Manila, but plan to try it through Cebu next time.

 

Patience my friend.
My flight from Dumaguete to Toronto back in March 2019 was cancelled. The outbound ticket was with PAL. The return portion was with Air Canada. I received a full refund via the online booking agency in November 2019.
I was happier than a Scotsman getting free food samples in a grocery store.

PAL flies direct from Manila to Toronto so I prefer to use them. The bags get tagged for Toronto and the 2 boarding passes get issued in Dumaguete. No hassles if there is a missed connection.

 

We are trying to stay flexible, and waiting until November gives us time to see how thing play out. Due to the nature of my work, we are up for vaccination in the first part of February, so we will have a card proving our vaccination. My hope is it will be enough to fly 10 months from now.

Singapore airlines is very highly rated, as is Thai. EVA is also supposed to be good, and is our second choice to try. They don't however have premium economy on both legs from Chicago to Manila where ANA does. Also ANA is rated higher and is less expensive. The flip side is the arrival time in Manila or Cebu is much better than ANA-we can land and a few hours later catch a Cebu Pacific flight to Dumaguete.

There are trade offs no matter which way we go, just wondering how others view flights/airports. In my opinion there is nothing better than hearing it from people who have actually experiences.