Cebu Pacific News Archive

Cebu Pacific flies direct from Manila to Jakarta for only P999

Cebu Pacific (CEB), the country’s low fare leader and leading domestic airline, will start flying a three times weekly direct service from Manila to Jakarta, Indonesia starting January 31, 2007. This new service is introduced with a special seat sale fare of only P999 one-way.

The Manila-Jakarta service will be operated using CEB’s brand new Airbus A319 aircraft and is scheduled to operate every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The flight departs from Manila at 8:55pm and arrives in Jakarta at 11:45pm. The flight then leaves Jakarta at 12:30am the following day and arrives back in Manila at 5:20am

CEB introduces its Manila-Jakarta service with a seat sale fare of only P999 one-way, a price reduction of almost 90% from the current lowest airfare to Jakarta. The seat sale will run from November 28 to December 5, 2006 only and is good for travel from January 31 to March 31, 2007. After the seat sale, the year-round ‘Go’ fares to Jakarta start at P3,499 one-way, still 64% less than the current lowest airfare to Jakarta.

The seat sale and ‘Go’ fares are exclusive of regular surcharges and government tax.

Jakarta, the capital and the largest city of Indonesia, is a major tourism and business hub in the region. CEB will be operating from the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

Lance Gokongwei, CEB President and CEO, said “Once again, we are proud to be the only Filipino carrier operating a direct Manila-Jakarta service; furthermore, we will be the only airline offering a direct, non-stop service. We hope that our trademark low fares will further stimulate business and leisure travel to and from this destination because this will benefit the economies of both countries.”

CEB is the only airline to offer direct flights to and from Jakarta with a flying time of only 3 hours and 50 minutes with no stopovers. “Although we expect that the majority of the traffic to be business travelers to start with, we are also anticipating the potential surge of leisure travelers because of our low fares,” Gokongwei added.

Gokongwei also mentioned that Jakarta is home to a growing number of Overseas Filipino Workers. “As we open our 7th international destination, we are excited to be able to serve and reach more Filipinos working overseas,” Gokongwei said.

Now in its 11th year, CEB has the newest fleet in the Philippines with a fleet age of less than 10 months, and one of the newest in Asia as it operates 12 brand new Airbus aircraft to its 20 domestic and 7 regional destinations including Kuala Lumpur starting on November 30 and Bangkok starting on December 14. The airline awaits the delivery of two more Airbus aircraft in early 2007 to complete its $670 million re-fleeting program.