A new four-times-a-week service – Manila to New York – will operate at Terminal 1 of New York’s JFK International Airport and fly through Vancouver International Airport (YVR).
PAL is offering an introductory fare for as low as $610 to New York to celebrate the flag carrier's return to the Big Apple. The roundtrip, budget economy fare, exclusive of taxes and surcharges, is now available (as of March 15th).
Flight PR 126 departs Manila every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 11:50PM.
Arrival in Vancouver is 8:50PM on the same day. After a two-hour transit stop, the service continues on to New York at 10:50PM, touching down at Terminal 1 of JFK International at 7:00AM the following day.
The return service, PR 127, departs New York at 11:00AM every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, arriving in Vancouver at 1:50PM. It departs the Canadian city at 3:20 p.m. and lands back in Manila at 8:35PM the following day.
The addition of New York will bring total US destinations to five, following Los Angeles, San Francisco, Honolulu and Guam. The New York flight – covering a distance of 14,501 kilometers or approximately 16.5 total flying hours – will be PAL's longest route.
The current daily service between Manila and Vancouver will now spike to 11 flights weekly with three departure times from Manila – mid-afternoon, early evening and late evening – providing wider schedule choices to passengers.
Manila-Toronto will add a fourth weekly frequency, increasing capacity on this long-haul route in time for the peak summer travel period out of Manila.
PAL’s return has been keenly anticipated by the huge Filipino-American communities along the U.S. eastern seaboard ever since the flag carrier pulled out of the region in 1997.