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SOUTHEAST Asian Airlines (Seair) is seeking entitlements to Malaysia totaling 5,400 seats per week.
In its application filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), the airline asked for 2,520 seats per week to mount flights between Clark and Kuala Lumpur; 1,260-weekly seats to be utilized for flights between Clark and Kota Kinabalu; 540 seats per week to Kuching; another 540 seats to Penang; and the same number of seats to Langkawi.
“Seair has filed [with] the CAB a petition for designation as official Philippine carrier to Malaysia and allocation of entitlements,” said the CAB in a notice.
The board has scheduled a hearing on August 3.
Aside from Seair, rival Cebu Pacific also applied for entitlements to Malaysia.
The listed airline of the Gokongwei group applied for an additional 720 seats a week to the Southeast Asian country. Cebu Pacific is currently mounting 10 weekly flights for the Manila-Kuala Lumpur route. This translates to 1,800 seats a week.
Cebu Pacific vice president for marketing and distribution Candice Iyog earlier said the carrier intends to mount twice daily flights within the year. The twice-a-day flights are equivalent to 2,520 weekly seats.
CAB executive director Carmelo Arcilla said the board will notify all carriers that they can apply for seat entitlements to Malaysia following the successful air talks held on June 8 between the two countries which yielded 2,520 new seat entitlements in addition to the current 2,300 seats.
The carriers, if interested, have seven days from receipt of the notice to file their applications.
The CAB official said both countries also agreed on unlimited traffic rights to airports outside of Manila, in keeping with the spirit of Executive Order (EO) 29, the policy implementing an open sky policy.
Arcilla said this is the first air pact sealed for the year. “Also, this is the first grant of unlimited traffic rights to our secondary gateways outside of Manila under EO 29,” added the CAB head.
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Source: Business Mirror, July 13, 2011
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