has anyone else flight been cancelled on 8th march with PAL? heathrow to NAIA

HI guys has anyone else had their flight cancelled with PAL?
got informed yesterday that my flight on the 8th of march has been cancelled.

Out of curiosity, why was it cancelled? Did they mention?

they havnt said why, I just got email saying it been cancelled and to call them

just found out its to do with tagaytay radar maintenance and upgrade.
look like 6th and 8th march London to manila flights plus a lot of others, there a list on the PAL facebook page

Cant they re-route it clark? Or provide other options? That is what i dont understand with phil govt sometime. These stuff needs at least a year of planning - i remember when dubai had to reduce their runway capacity sometime in 2015 for 90 days for runway expansion etc. airlines have been notified 2 years in advance of the said plan.

That is too much hassle for travellers.

The cancellations affect selected Domestic and International flights during the period 6th to 11th March.

Hope that you are able to get rebooked OK.

Yeah, they wernt very helpful yeaturday to be honest, they offer me the next day but I've made appointments so its not good for me ,I'm hoping to get a earlier flight, but they couldn't tell me, they said that I had to reply back to the new schedule saying I cant do that.

That's a pain in the backside, hope you can re-schedule without causing you too much grief.

not sure whats going to happen now they said ive got to wait and they will sort it out Monday, they did offer me the 9th but its not good for me, I'm hoping I can go day earlier as it seems to be London - manila flights on the 6 and 8 affected

You need to get in as quick as you can as all the other passengers on the affected flights are going to be doing the same as you.

hope so TIMMERS

I rang omega travel who I booked the flight through but they couldn't really help, the PAL airlines office in uk is only open weekdays, so ive got to wait til tomorrow

Not certain about compensation.

It seems that you might have been entitled to 600 Euro compensation if they had cancelled within 14 days of departure, I am no expert in these matters. Looks like they left it till the last moment, rather than handling the problem responsibly.

As Timmers says, best idea is to get your ass on a seat, any seat, asap.

Hmmm, I'm flying into Manila on March 6/7th, but not on PAL.

It would be great if my Emirates flight were to be diverted into Clark actually. (I'm flying back from Clark anyway).


I'd better look into this.

Just curious, this must affect all other airlines into/from MNL, wonder how others are handling it, if at all?

Well that's what I thought , I found on the PAL facebook page that there is alot of flights affected by this , its from 6th of march til 11march

That's what I found

I think PAL will handle this poorly. Expect a lot of negative feedbacks about it.

No mention of it on the Emirates website (yet).


Presumably the Phils authorities have thought it sensible to lean on their own carrier first, before upsetting valuable foreign customer airlines.

It has been necessary to 'thin out' the flights, rather than closing the airport, of course.

Still, I'd be very happy if they drop me off (not literally lol) at Clark though.

I'll give Emirates a ring if I don't get an email from them in the near future.