PHILIPPINES - domestic tourism on the rise

eTN, 11-6-2007

Domestic air travel in the Philippines is setting new records.
The number of domestic airline passengers rose more than a fifth in the January to March quarter due to the growing popularity of budget airlines, according to Philippine’s Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB)According to the CAB, domestic air travelers for the first three months of the year went up by 22.4 percent to 2.4 million over the same period last year.

Cebu Pacific Air occupies the top spot in terms of garnering the most passengers with 1.01 million, a 71.6-percent increase compared to the same period last year, followed by rival Philippine Airlines (PAL) with 938,960 passengers, up from 961,764 last year.

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