PAL president and COO Jaime Bautista said the amount would cover 12 Q400s; two Boeing-777s; and six Airbus 350s, all of which would be arriving from now until 2019. The new Q400, which will arrive in Manila on July 26, is the first of 12 that PAL is taking delivery from now until 2018. With the new Q400s, PAL will mount new destinations out of Cebu and Clark such as Clark to Bacolod, Clark to Cagayan de Oro and Clark to Basco. “We will fly over the North Pole so it would be 16 hours or less than 17 hours,” Bautista said. In all, PAL is taking delivery of 12 Q400s – five this year and seven in 2018.

Source: Philippine Star July 23, 2017 16:07 UTC