By Annabel Consuelo Petinglay/Philippine News Agency
SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique — The Philippine Airlines (PAL), starting April 25, will increase its flight frequency from the Evelio B. Javier Airport here to the Clark International Airport in Pampanga to three flights per week from the previous two.
Antique Provincial Information Officer Galileo Magbanua said in an interview Tuesday that on April 15, PAL management began posting online its three-times-per-week schedule to Antique’s lone airport.
“Beginning April 25, there will be a three-times-per-week flight from Subic to Antique and vice versa,” Magbanua said.
He said with the additional flight, commercial airplane passengers from Antique could already travel Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday to Clark every week.
He recalled that when PAL’s Q400NG aircraft took its maiden flight to Subic from Antique last Dec. 16, 2018, it started with only two flights per week.
“Since the start of the PAL operation in Antique airport, there’s an average of 88 passengers taking the commercial plane that the PAL management decided to make the flight three times per week,” Magbanua said.
“Governor Rhodora Cadiao said with the PAL flight, Antique is now accessible to Antiqueños who are coming home this Holy Week,” he said.
Magbanua said that even prior to the Holy Week, many Antiqueños have already booked their flights home.
“I tried to inquire from the PAL ticketing office here in Antique about the availability of the flight this Holy Week, but was informed it is already fully booked,” he said.
Magbanua added that this Holy Week, the province of Antique is not only a nice place for a vacation but also for religious pilgrimage because of its many old churches, such as the newly-restored San Juan de Nepomuceno Catholic Church in Anini-y.
The church is just a boat ride away from the beautiful Nogas Island in the municipality.
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