There are many reasons why I have a love-hate relationship with Cebu Pacific but I have learned…read moreover time not to expect a lot from this low cost airline. Although often times delayed and disappointing, I think it's important to remark how much their routes have grown ever since they started operating. There are many routes for local and domestic flights. You just have to go and check them out online or you may go to any to any accredited booking offices to find your destination of choice. The staff are ok and do what they can with what they have. Make sure to constantly check on their website for updates on promos, price drops, and other special new destinations locally and abroad. Make sure to always read your booking details and guidelines so as to not have any hassle when you check in or travel (make sure to purchase your correct luggage allocation because they are getting stricter now about overweight luggages). Just remember, you most likely will pay for many things but, as well, know what you can omit and you'll make it just time.

Worst airline! NO customer service! They closed most, if not all their offices and you deal with…read morean answering service! if something happens to your flight even if it's not your fault!, forget getting help, forget getting a refund! total scam!!!!!! i have screenshots of my text with their nonexistent customer service auto representative! never a real person to deal with but could also be worse! stay away from this airline!!!!!!!

Nice planes and seat for their size and promo price. This edges my 1 star rating up toward 2 stars,…read morebut it's just not there! Bad cabin service where the sheen has been off 'airline hospitality' workers for decades: the hospitality factor is as glacially superficial as it can get, especially for carriers that simply and utterly suck! As for anything resembling meals, now not one pretzel, no tubig (water), and they charge for meals, and likely not good ones at that. The emphasis is on buying some less than appealing expensive products that likely are much better ashore. But the malaise of profit onboard has spread throughout the industry. Kinda lame, eh? This inefficient incompetent and inexcusable outfit made us wait in that large uncomfortable domestic-travel waiting room for over 3 hours past flight time, the epitome of lousy organization, and even worse customer / travellor service! Finally getting on the plane and off the ground, we were told that we were ahead of schedule, but that's little consolation: upon arrival at Iloilo from Manila, the staff immediately left the plane, letting passengers find their way out alone rather than try to placate us with the usual blather about their 'pleasure' in having us on the flight and the rest of that half-smiling pack of lies. You could cut our disgust for this outfit with a butter knife! We are all victims of the airlines in this country, and their usual routine upon finally landing was not carried out because the crew knew that passengers were angry: we'd paid good money for punctual competent service, and once again on some lame excuse that from 1 hour late to 3 hours really let us down! In this sad little country, almost everything is money-centered and untrustworthy, as is Air Asia and it's bigger cousins, Cebu Pacific (yuk!) and the kuripot PAL (on Philippine Air I experienced the very worst international flight ever, where waiting 3 hours to take-off in a jet whose interior was quite literally torn apart as if by a riot!). Sad excuse, but as these flying junker jokes are owned by chinoy (Chinese filipinos), little surprise! Too bad an celebrated winner doesn't buy, run and improve this joke of an alr service! Try to slip by them all, okay? They are bad! Rather than be stung and stuck with these three losers, try to get in and out of the Philippines via Korean Air, Cathy Pacific, Eva or Singapore Air? And rather than use them inside the country for shorter hauls, rent a car, hire a long-distance taxi, or take the leading bus for your ground travel (Ceres in the Visayas, Partas in Luzon, etc.), and all should go better... Caution: but don't take the long-distance ferry services. They all are really bad unless you enjoy a 12-36 hour sail among the islands with next to nothing to entertain you. Those barges can be literally infested with cockroaches to 'food' that's hardly fit for a dog. As for this dog Air Asia, patiently prepare to be grossly disappointed, and be pleasantly surprised if your journey unfolds even fairly well.

We flew Air Asia Airline for a family trip to Boracay with 11 members on November 16. The staff…read morewere polite, but the coordination system was an absolute nightmare. Our flight from Manila to Boracay was delayed for almost two hours. Our flight was supposed to board at 10:20 in Terminal 2, Gate 15 at NAIA, but we didn't board until nearly 12 noon. To make matters worse, they changed the gate from 15 to 14, then to 18 at the last minute, leaving passengers scrambling between gates. If you're not travel-savvy and don't pay attention to announcements or the flight board, you could easily end up on the wrong flight. What made the situation even more frustrating was that our 83-year-old mother, who had been traveling with us, had to walk between those three gates repeatedly. My mom insisted on taking these "short" walks for her health, but she eventually gave up and my sister flagged for a wheelchair. Caticlan-Boracay is a small local airport. The plane doesn't park near a terminal; instead, you have to deplane using the stairs while carrying your luggage. Oh, and if you have bulky, heavy luggage and an elderly relative with mobility limitations, you'll be in for a real challenge. You'll have to climb down at least 20 flights of stairs to the ground, and then you'll have to walk another quarter mile or so to reach the main building of the airport in the middle of 80-90 degree weather!!! On our way back to Manila, our Air Asia airline nightmare continued. We arrived two hours before our flight, and we learned our lesson from previous experience and asked for wheelchair assistance, despite my mother's protest. When we reached the counter, the lady at the front desk asked us TO PLACE ALL OUR LUGGAGES , BACKPACKS, SMALL PURSES AND LITTLE HAND BAGS TOGETHER TO BE WEIGHED!!! I have never experienced that before in all my travels in several continents around the world! This is the FIRST! Of course piling the luggages with our hand bags would generate the extra weight they are looking for so they can charge you more money. I had actually bought extra luggage allowance on our way to Boracay before thinking they are going to pull this stunt to charge you more. However, for some strange reason, Air Asia's website wouldn't allow me to buy extra luggage allowance for our carry-on back to Manila. They had an instruction to buy for extra luggage allowance for carry on at the front desk on their website. They HELD my boarding pass and instructed me to use a QR code on display near the counter to pay ! According to them, this was cheaper! Guess what? I couldn't access the darn code because the airport Wi-Fi didn't work, and my iPhone mobile network couldn't connect to the internet. They knew the airport WI-FI is a total crap. All the passengers with excess weight on their luggages ended up paying them directly without using the useless QR code. My sister and I decided to pay the P2,000.00 they are asking for so I could have my boarding pass and join the rest of my family! Oh dear, the nightmare didn't end there. After that VERY eventful check-in, we had to take another bus ride to the where the plane is parked. We sat inside the bus for over an hour, waiting for the late arrivals. The bus was already full, yet they kept waiting and filling it up until we were packed like sardines. We endured another hour of waiting before boarding. We were supposed to board at 10 AM, but instead, we climbed those dreadful flights of stairs again with our heavy luggages and finally boarded the plane after 11 AM. Several foreign nationals on the bus were complaining about their experiences with Air Asia and vowed never to fly through this airline again. One Australian made a comment about how unfair it was to make other passengers suffer unnecessarily for those who had poor time management. There were eight buses on standby. Why couldn't they use another bus to wait for the late passengers instead of making us wait for another hour? He mentioned that he had a connecting flight to another country and hoped that all this waiting wouldn't affect his schedule. People were exhausted, just wanted to get home. We had come to the Philippines from another continent for a brief respite and relaxation. I just wish our journey to our destinations in the Philippines wasn't such a hassle, bordering on a nightmare. Air Asia Management you need to improve your customer service!!!

We flew Philippine Airlines roundtrip fr MNL to Boracay…read more Positives: Nice staff; Good leg and hip room in Comfort Class; Checked bag came out quickly; Negatives: The staff on the return flight were all playing on their cellphones at the gate; PAL lived up to its nickname of "Plane Always Late" on the return flight. The gate also changed; The plane on the return flight was a "twin propper". I paid for an upgraded seat, that wasn't upgraded. The flight times both ways changed a few times. I lost track of the departing time each way; The outbound flight changed gates last min. We had to walk down a long corridor, hop on a bus, and climb up a steep incline staircase to get on the plane: Not ideal. I am unfamiliar w/ the local carriers like Cebu Pacific. However, I heard that the local carriers do a good job. Perhaps I will try one of the local carriers next time for local flights.

They kept my check-in baggage hostage and charged me $500 US dollars…read more I asked if there were other options indtead of paying this hefty price and all that was recommended was to purchase a 7kg carry baggage. They could of just upgraded my ticket and resolved my issue. Muybuyah my @$$

*Call main assistance (Toll Free) phone number is +1 (888)-325-02.68 available anytime (day or…read morenight). As an Emerald member with the oneworld alliance, I have always received complimentary seat selection on partner airlines. That changed with Royal Jordanian. I paid $140 for two seats that were clearly shown as a two seat row. When my wife and I boarded, we discovered the row actually had three seats. No one pays extra for a middle seat -- ever. My seat number was k6 and the seat has no cushion whatsoever, I had to stack pillows and blanket to prevent back pain Would rather pay twice as much and get to Amman in 3 days then fly this airline. Rather take any other airline that go through that hell again. Most incompetent company I've had to deal with. Called someone in Detroit to get information about the plane and flight, he gives me another number to call I believe it was in Chicago. I call that number, another person tells me we don't handle this, you have to call another number. Called that number, that person gave me the original Detroit number. I called Detroit back, another person answers and gives me the information I was asking to begin with. Not done yet. I finally check in and get on the plane, plane was gorgeous and flight attendants for most part were very hard working. Half the people on this flight were idiots, loud, arrogant, dirty and bathrooms even after a couple hours in flight were dirty, urine on the floor, clogged up sinks. Absolutely disgusting!!!! Like a fourth world country on a top of the line plane. I will never ever fly Royal Jordanian again!!!!

*Call main assistance (Toll Free) phone number is +1 888-325-0268 available anytime (day or night)…read more As an Emerald member with the oneworld alliance, I have always received complimentary seat selection on partner airlines. That changed with Royal Jordanian. I paid $140 for two seats that were clearly shown as a two seat row. When my wife and I boarded, we discovered the row actually had three seats. No one pays extra for a middle seat -- ever. My seat number was k6 and the seat has no cushion whatsoever, I had to stack pillows and blanket to prevent back pain Would rather pay twice as much and get to Amman in 3 days then fly this airline. Rather take any other airline that go through that hell again. Most incompetent company I've had to deal with. Called someone in Detroit to get information about the plane and flight, he gives me another number to call I believe it was in Chicago. I call that number, another person tells me we don't handle this, you have to call another number. Called that number, that person gave me the original Detroit number. I called Detroit back, another person answers and gives me the information I was asking to begin with. Not done yet. I finally check in and get on the plane, plane was gorgeous and flight attendants for most part were very hard working. Half the people on this flight were idiots, loud, arrogant, dirty and bathrooms even after a couple hours in flight were dirty, urine on the floor, clogged up sinks. Absolutely disgusting!!!! Like a fourth world country on a top of the line plane. I will never ever fly Royal Jordanian again!!!!

Singapore Airlines is hands down one of my favorite airlines in the world. They have the best…read moreplanes and world class service. On a trip to Germany, my sister discovered a small worm in her vegetables. After she reported it to a stewardess, all the staff came rushing over to apologize and immediately changed her meal. She was even given a gift certificate of SGD 100 in Duty Free. WHAT? Where's my worm?? I immediately started looking for a worm in my vegetables but to no avail. With this level of quality and service, you can't expect it to come cheap. The good thing is, every year BPI has a promo with Singapore airlines. If you plan your trip ahead and patiently wait for the right time to pounce, you can go to Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain or Turkey for less than EUR 700 - EUR 900. Yes, you read that right. That is not cheap, but is super good value.

I was supposed to fly to Jakarta one time, and I was already in the airport when I found out that…read moremy secretary bungled my flight bookings and I ended up missing my flight because with her desire to find the cheapest flight, she booked me on a flight to Jakarta's CKG airport with a connecting flight via Taipei. It turns out that I needed a transit visa to go through Taipei because I had a Cebu Pacific ticket, and Cebu Pacific didn't have transit facilities in Taipei's airport. Long story short, I had to book another ticket in the last minute and I ended up with a flight to Jakarta that had a connecting flight in Singapore's Changi Airport. Flying Singaporean Air is probably the most pleasant airline experience I have ever had. There is hardly any doubt as to why Singaporean Air has won many awards, and was even hailed as one of the world's best airlines in terms of service. I was seated in coach, but I love how the flight crew treated us all in Economy like VIP. I have only flown business class once before, and other airlines' business class is Singapore Air's coach. I remember being handed a nicely printed menu of the specials, and they were kind enough to fix me up with a vegetarian meal even though I didn't get to request for it in advance. The person next to me also had to request for Halal and they took care of his request promptly. It was a smooth fight to Singapore. The plane was fitted with high-tech implements like your own tablet screen with games and movies, and other really snazzy features. If you could afford it, treat yourself to a stress-free and smooth flight and fly Singapore Airlines. The service is stellar!

For a classy flight to Hong Kong and back, take Cathay Pacific…read more From the moment I got on the plane, it felt different compared with my other flight experiences, and that includes flights from other airlines (including domestic ones in other countries) across Southeast Asia. It's an overall feeling I got and might not be totally captured by a few examples. But in any case, I'll try: first, the seats are comfortable. Then, there are the efficient and businesslike flight attendants. It's really the food that I remember, though. It doesn't taste like airline food. It's delicious and tastes like food prepared when I eat at casual dining restaurants. This must be one of the reasons Cathay Pacific flights are more expensive than those from any of our local airlines. There's also inflight entertainment like movies, but they're really for the Chinese as they're in the Chinese language.I like the screen that shows where we are on our flight and figures like how many feet we are up in the air. I don't think Cathay has direct flights to anywhere else from the Philippines, though. The other flights I checked, like Shanghai, Seoul, and Jakarta, are all via Hong Kong.

I missed my flight and now i can't get my luggage in JFK in New York. I keep getting the run around…read moreeverytime i call. They just have to notify American airline at JFK to release my bags and send them to Manila. I have medicine for my heart and type 2 diabetes in my bag. I have been on the phone for 2 hours trying to get this done and I'm no closer now then when i started.

I've flown Asiana once before from the US to the Philippines and back, but it was a long long time…read moreago. I got a really good fare for this trip (a third of what I usually pay when I travel in the summer or Christmas time), so I really shouldn't complain too much. Luckily for me, there's nothing to complain about. The flight from Manila to Korea was pretty uneventful. Check in was very smooth and efficient, the flight wasn't delayed, and the service on the plane was very good. They served a meal during the short 4 hour flight, but I slept the whole time, so I can't really comment on the food. The only thing that might dissuade me from booking again with Asiana is the super long layover in Incheon on my back to the US. The layover was almost 12 hours. I did spend 5 hours of that time on a free transit tour of Seoul, but I still had to sit around for another 7 hours before my flight back to the US. But hey, if the price is right again, I might just suffer through another long layover. I travel to Philippines every year, so the savings I'll make will mean more money for other travel!

Asiana Airlines is awesome, don't get me wrong. I usually don't write bad reviews and hate doing it…read morebut after the experience I had at the Manila station...? They don't deserve 5 stars just yet. Flying Asiana Airlines to Manila a few times already, I've always had below average customer service here. But my last experience pushed me to write this review. I wanted to startup a PIR for one of my luggage that was damaged, and so I went up to the OZ staff that was just standing around and talking to each other not assisting inbound passengers collect their luggage (mind you all the other OZ stations I've been to assisted passengers with collecting their luggage from the carousel). I asked these two gentlemen if I could file a report, and within 30 seconds they deny my claim. I'm thinking okay?? That was quick, so I ask for an explanation as to why my claim was denied spot on. In short terms what they said to me was basically "your luggage can't handle the weight that was put inside." Uhhhh excuse me?! Insulting much? My luggage was not overweight, and now you're telling me my luggage couldn't carry the things I put inside? Pretty much telling me my luggage wasn't good enough. That was a total sad excuse to deny my claim. I got their names in case of future reference and just left. I didn't want to be insulted any longer. I'll still fly Asiana Airlines, they're great. But I really hope the Manila Station gets more training on customer service. Asiana Airlines 5 stars, but Asiana Airlines Manila Station 3 stars for now... :/

I recently flew LAX-HND-MNL-HND-NARITA-LAX in Business Class…read more The ground crew at LAX was just meh. The flight leaving LA had a 4-hour delay, and the ground crew didn't care! The ground crew in Manila provides much better customer service! They start their check-in service by bowing to all their passengers. The FAs from Haneda-Manila-NARITA are very kind and friendly! They are by far the best crew I've experienced. The ground crew in NARITA has exceptional service. They are all smiles and very accommodating! The Sakura Lounge in Narita is the best I've ever been to. I enjoyed my stay during my long layover. I even got to shower. JAL is my new favorite Asian flight carrier! I am looking forward to flying with JAL soon. The only issue I had was the old planes. I guess the LA routes are not a priority for upgraded planes now.

I don't travel internationally very often but I have to say, Japan Airlines has been one of the…read morebest experiences we've had so far. We've only used them to travel to and from Manila and we found that they consistently provide great customer service, they are courteous and really know how to take care of their passengers. From our departure, the lines to the checkout counter was very long and I'm not sure if it's because they weren't open at that time or what but thankfully when the attendants began opening up their kiosks, the lines began moving decently. And although I know most of the employees are Filipino, it's quite interesting to see them adapt the Japanese culture and etiquette to their services. After checking in, we were brought to the lounge which I believe was part of my parents' traveling perks. The lounge was nice and clean, food was pleasant, and the restrooms well kept. The attendants at the lounge were also helpful I'm informing us of when the wheelchair attendant was on the way to pick me up due to my physical disability. All in all, we've enjoyed traveling with Japan Airlines and we look forward to flying with them again soon!

I went to the Turkish Airlines office in Manila and could not have been more satisfied! The office…read moreis comfortable and staff very polite and welcoming. I presented my problem and all was resolved quickly and professionally within 5 minutes. Excellent service , well done. John Cummings

UPDATED REVIEW (3 stars)…read more I had to go back to Turkish Airlines and was really dreading to go because of the experience I had the last 2 times. Well, I would like to share that it's very nice to see when places improve. They now have a person that greets you when you arrive and who gives you a number. Right away, I was called by the agent whom was friendly and did what I needed to do with my ticket. The change of date was still long to do but at least she talked and explained what she was doing. A much better experience. Bravo!

Air Swift was sold to Cebu Pacific. Air Swift has many South East Asian airport stops, I…read morespecifically take them only for one reason. and that is to go to El Nido. Most travelers going to El Nido go to Puerto Princesa and take a 5 or 6 hour ride, boat to El Nido because of cost. You can pick many many airlines to Puerto Princesa on the cheap , $50, $100 Round trip from Manila, El Nido has an airport but it's own by Air Shift and they are the only ones that can land there so you have to pay 3 or 4 times the price of flying to Puerto Princesa. I don't know what Cebu Pacific plans are in the future about pricing. Even at a high price Air Swift is a no frills airline, it's on a little over an hour to fly to El Nido and there are no meals, all the seat are economy, but if you going to El Nido and you can afford it I say skip the 5 or 6 hour road trip and take the direct flight.

Delays, Cancellations & More Delays. Honestly this is one of the top two worst airlines I've ever…read moreflown. The delays and cancellations are rampant and the employees are both lackadaisical and incompetent. They stood there laughing as stranded passengers were frantically looking for alternatives for their cancelled flights. It took me over 20 min to pay for my bags because they could not locate the one cashier. Unfortunately I didn't have a choice island hopping in the Philippines. I hope I never have to fly this airline again!