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Philippine Airlines (PAL) has formally sealed agreements with Airbus and Rolls-Royce covering nine additional A350-1000s, with purchase rights for five more, plus Trent XWB-97 engines.<\/strong><\/p>\n The contracts, signed in Manila on 5 November, follow the memoranda of understanding announced at the Farnborough International Airshow in July. The firm order takes PAL\u2019s total A350-1000 commitment to 18 aircraft.<\/p>\n PAL says it remains the first and only airline in Southeast Asia to fly the type, which it operates nonstop to the East and West coasts of the US and to Canada. The new aircraft will extend the A350-1000 to more of its long-haul network.<\/p>\n PAL chairman and president Lucio C. Tan III said the aircraft had allowed the airline to fly nonstop to North America with better fuel efficiency and a better passenger experience.<\/p>\n \u201cFor eight and a half decades, we have connected people, businesses and communities across the Philippines and around the world,\u201d he said. \u201cAs we honor that legacy, we must also prepare for the decades ahead, and today\u2019s agreements are an important part of that preparation.\u201d<\/p>\n Airbus Commercial Aircraft executive vice president sales Beno\u00eet de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry said the A350-1000 was \u201cthe perfect platform\u201d for PAL to build its long-haul network, \u201cespecially in competitive premium transpacific markets\u201d.<\/p>\n The engine agreement includes Rolls-Royce\u2019s TotalCare maintenance program.<\/p>\n PAL\u2019s A350-1000s feature 42 Business Class suites in a 1-2-1 layout, 24 Premium Economy seats and 316 Economy seats, with 4K screens, Wi-Fi and USB-A and USB-C charging.<\/p>\n The airline flies the type daily between Manila and San Francisco, which it is positioning as a year-end option for Filipinos on the US West Coast heading home. From 1 November, PR 104 departs Manila at 11:15pm and arrives in San Francisco at 7:45pm , while PR 105 leaves San Francisco at 10:40pm and lands in Manila at 5:35am.<\/p>\n PAL now operates 86 aircraft, 65 of them Airbus. It was invited to join the oneworld alliance this year.<\/p>\n Main image from left: Lt. Gen. (Ret) Raul Del Rosario, Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines Director General, Atty. Carlos Luis Fernandez, Philippine Airlines Executive Vice President\/Chief Operating Officer, H.E. Amb. Sarah Anne Hulton, UK Embassy to the PH, H.E. Amb. Donatienne Hissard, French Embassy to the PH, Lucio C. Tan III, PAL Chairman and PAL Holdings, Inc. President and Chief Operating Officer, Chris Drewer, Airbus Senior Vice President and Head of Commercial Accounts \u2013 Asia-Pacific, Richard Nuttall, Philippine Airlines President, John Kelly, Rolls-Royce Senior Vice President for Customers \u2013 Asia-Pacific, and Atty. Carmelo Arcilla, Philippine Civil Aeronautics Board Executive Director.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n kabarsula SLOT <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Philippine Airlines (PAL) has formally sealed agreements with Airbus and Rolls-Royce covering nine additional A350-1000s,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kabarsula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kabarsula.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kabarsula.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kabarsula.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kabarsula.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kabarsula.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kabarsula.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kabarsula.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kabarsula.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kabarsula.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kabarsula.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}