{"id":16575,"date":"2010-06-18T05:31:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T21:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/en\/?p=16575"},"modified":"2010-06-18T05:31:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T21:31:09","slug":"cebu-pacific-air-to-launch-direct-flight-to-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2010\/06\/18\/16575\/","title":{"rendered":"Cebu Pacific Air To Launch Direct Flight To Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines-based low cost airline, Cebu Pacific Air, has announced that it has approval from the civil aviation department to run a direct flight service between Manila and Beijing from September 2010.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This will make Beijing the third destination for Cebu Pacific Air in mainland China, after Guangzhou and Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>The airline plans to operate three flights a week going between the two cities. They will depart Manila at 19:35 and arrive at Beijing at 00:50. Return flights will leave Beijing at 01:00 and get back to Manila at 05:30.<\/p>\n<p>Cebu Pacific Air is now expanding it business with the aim of becoming a large-scale low-cost airline in Asia. The direct service to Beijing is part of its business development plan.<\/p>\n<p>It is also reported that the airline plans to buy 22 new aircraft over five years a cost of USD1.4 billion to double the number of aircraft it currently owns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines-based low cost airline, Cebu Pacific Air, has announced that it has approval from the civil aviation department to run a direct flight service between Manila and Beijing from September 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[12759,13351,14924,12894],"class_list":["post-16575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-beijing","tag-budget-airline","tag-cebu-pacific","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}