Kuwait Times

Cebu Pacific to stop Kuwait flights

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Cebu Pacific Airlines will suspend flights from Kuwait from mid June, the Philippine­s-based airlines announced yesterday. Cebu will fly its last 4x weekly flight from Manila to Kuwait on June 13 and will fly its last return Kuwait to Manila on June 14. Passengers with flights booked after that date will have options to either rebook for an earlier flight, receive a full refund or use the ticket value to book a different flight for the future, the airline noted in a statement to the press. Flights from Doha, Qatar and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia will also be halted started in early July. Cebu will continue flying to Dubai, UAE.

The budget carrier cited increased competitio­n as the reason for stopping the three Gulf routes. “The entry of Cebu Pacific into these markets benefitted passengers with lower fares and more choices. Of late, other carriers have aggressive­ly added more flights, which has resulted in substantia­l oversupply of seats and fares that are so low, hence making the routes unsustaina­ble,” said JR Mantaring, Cebu Pacific Vice President for Corporate Affairs.

“We have to continuous­ly review our routes to ensure their viability. At this point, it makes more sense for us to re-deploy the aircraft used for our Riyadh, Doha and Kuwait service to routes where we can further stimulate demand and sustain our low fare offers,” he added. National carrier, Philippine­s Airlines, will offer non-stop flights to Kuwait, Doha and Riyadh along with several other Middle Eastern destinatio­ns. For the first 3 months of 2017, the budget airline carried 4.8 million passengers, 1.3 million to internatio­nal destinatio­ns.

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