Philippine Travel Notes

This is Part 8 of the Sights & Scenes On My Iloilo To Cebu To Tacloban Flights. What/Where Is Remote Parking Being a small propeller plane, our flight was not to dock at any of the gates of T1. It is normal herearounds, and we're all used to this, right? We get ferried by busloads! There there.... we were headed to the Aircraft Parking Bays across the MCIA Cargo Terminals . Oist, if in the past I hated this bus part of air travel, nowadays I cherish it. Why? Well, I get to see other, derivative, amusing parts of airport/airline operations! The Scenes At MCIA Remote Parking Here's a fantastically alluring example scene of many separate activities: First, there are 2 separate and different planes. It just so happened that at the time I took the shot, my position (angle) accidentally made them look as if just 1 airplane! In front is an Air Juan plane. It's a Cessna Grand Caravan 208B EX. That is their land version (obvious ba?), as they have a seaplane ve...

This is Part 7 of the Sights & Scenes On My Iloilo To Cebu To Tacloban Flights. Wonderful Views Again: Mactan I heard sighs of relief, probably including mine hehe! Landing time. This is Cordova . Approaching from south of the island. Therefore, we were landing into Runway 04. This happened before .., I could see the Cordova Tourism Center in Brgy. Day-as. Syempre, Lantaw Floating Restobar right side of the causeway. Pioneer in that area. Oy, I saw parts of the Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway ( CCLEX ) under construction! I will be honest, I'm not that excited about this CCLEX as most other people in Cebu. I have two reasons - personal and analytical (yes, me ganun)! 1] On the personal side, wala man koy labot ana gud hehe! I live in Banilad Mandaue, V&G Lacion and future home is Catarman Liloan. All got nothing to do with that link . I will probably only be able to use it just for curiousity's sake, or when I'd be roaming around with my usual bu...

This was another fun-flight-day. Meaning? Ah, another circuitous route from Point A to Point B. Yey! Much like how I flew into this new Bohol-Panglao International Airport (IATA Airport Code is still TAG ), my flight-out may look complicated. But we already expounded on that in a previous story , right? Yea! This first leg of the route was a "new to me" flight, a direct service on PAL from Panglao to Davao. Was I excited? "Very", to say the least! Why? Well, because this route is rather new. PAL started on this only in November 2017 with a 4x per week flight, then they made it once-a-day schedule since March 2018. Convenience both for international and domestic passengers who want to hop directly between these two tourist capitals -Bohol and Davao- without the need for backtracking to say, Cebu or even Manila. Let's go na! Departure From The New Panglao International Airport Bye Panglao's New Airport ! Pushback! Aw, not literally push-back. I...