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Philippine Airlines: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Philippine Airlines is the national airline of the Philippines. It is also known by its International Civil Aviation Organization code, PAL and its IATA call code PR. The national airline serves domestic and international destinations.

The airport's main hub is in Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay City and Parañaque City, Philippines in Metro Manila, nearby the city of Manila.

Philippine Airlines was began in February 1941 by a group of businessmen led by Andres Soriano. Government investment in September of the same year paved the way for its nationalization.

It started operations in March 1941 with a single Beech Model 18 aircraft making one flight daily between Manila (from Nielson Field) and Baguio. In 1946, after the war, PAL resumed operations with services to 15 domestic points. Its fleet consisted of five Douglas DC-3s. In the same year, a chartered DC-4 ferries 40 American servicemen to California, making PAL the first Asian airline to cross the Pacific. In the same year, it started regular service between Manila and San Francisco. Philippine Airlines nowadays uses a fleet of all GE-powered Boeing 737-300's and 737-400's, 747-400's and Airbus A320-200's, A330-300's, A340-300's.

PAL has 21 crash records, the last one being in 1999 and most of them being in its earlier years.

On December 11, 1994, a small bomb exploded below the seat of a Japanese businessman on Philippine Airlines Flight 434. The businessman perished, but none of the other 293 passengers were killed. The Boeing 747-200 landed safely. Investigators later found that Ramzi Yousef, a terrorist suspected of being a part of Al-Qaida, planted the bomb there to test it out for a terrorist attack he was planning, Project Bojinka. The plan was foiled after an apartment fire in Manila led investigators to the laptop computer and disks containing the plan.

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Asia

East Asia

North America

Oceania

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