PR 81st Birthday Sale: especially good to Japan and Thailand

[Melburnian1]

Philippine Airlines will from 2 April 2022 be flying five days a week from Sydney, and separately Melbourne to Manila, and twice a week from Brisbane.

It has an especially good Manila-Japan network (way better than QFi/JQi) with 'open jaw' tickets (in to one city, out from another) a possibility. But Japan is not yet open to tourists.

Entry requirements for Philippines are way easier than for Thailand.

PR's 81st anniversary sale ('Asia's first' is one catchcry) is especially good value to Bangkok and Japanese cities in J:

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A good travel agent may be able to arrange a MNL stopover on this fare, giving time to visit another Filipino island. Note that fares become available for travel from 1 July 2022. As with some other parts of southeast Asia, July and August are the only two months when I wouldn't recommend visiting, as it tends to be muggy as well as hot. If you enjoy visiting Cairns or Darwin in the wet season, ignore my suggestion.

June onwards is supposedly typhoon season for a few months but while it's only anecdotal, rarely do I notice these until about September: lately, the intense ones seem to be around December.

Typhoons never concurrently hit the whole of the country, and rarely affect Mindanao in the south.

It is using an A321 with 12 lie flat J seats (2-2) presently from MEL but at some stage, supposedly, the A333s (1-2-1 and very good) will be back to MEL and are already flying to SYD. BNE should normally just be an A321.

Fare differences may apply is the wording PR uses.

 

[Inlander]

Philippine Airlines will from 2 April 2022 be flying five days a week from Sydney, and separately Melbourne to Manila, and twice a week from Brisbane.

It has an especially good Manila-Japan network (way better than QFi/JQi) with 'open jaw' tickets (in to one city, out from another) a possibility. But Japan is not yet open to tourists.

Entry requirements for Philippines are way easier than for Thailand.

PR's 81st anniversary sale ('Asia's first' is one catchcry) is especially good value to Bangkok and Japanese cities in J:

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www.philippineairlines.com

A good travel agent may be able to arrange a MNL stopover on this fare, giving time to visit another Filipino island. Note that fares become available for travel from 1 July 2022. As with some other parts of southeast Asia, July and August are the only two months when I wouldn't recommend visiting, as it tends to be muggy as well as hot. If you enjoy visiting Cairns or Darwin in the wet season, ignore my suggestion.

June onwards is supposedly typhoon season for a few months but while it's only anecdotal, rarely do I notice these until about September: lately, the intense ones seem to be around December.

Typhoons never concurrently hit the whole of the country, and rarely affect Mindanao in the south.

It is using an A321 with 12 lie flat J seats (2-2) presently from MEL but at some stage, supposedly, the A333s (1-2-1 and very good) will be back to MEL and are already flying to SYD. BNE should normally just be an A321.

Unlimited rebooking doesn't come with the small print QF-type warning about having to pay any increase in fare. I don't know if that was an unintended omission, or whether the airline is feeling suddenly 'generous' to prospective travellers.

Yes they have some some good value stuff in the future bookings. BNE always had the A321 pre Covid, i would say they will ramp up to 7 days when the booking curve looks positive.

 

[Melburnian1]

Yes they have some some good value stuff in the future bookings. BNE always had the A321 pre Covid, i would say they will ramp up to 7 days when the booking curve looks positive.

Unless PR was in a position to operate MNL-BNE-AKL every day and return the same way, I doubt it'd achieve sufficient passenger loadings for a daily.