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                    [Title] => Another Pinoy in oil rig blast dies
                    [Summary] => 

One of four Filipino workers injured in an oil platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico has died, the Philippine embassy in the United States announced yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2012-11-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img713/7918/gen7newthumb.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 375603 [Title] => Seair flies with new boss [Summary] => After 38 successful years at the country’s flag carrier, Avelino L. Zapanta moved to Seair, a medium-sized fleet transporting tourists to their final destinations in the country most of which are "too missionary" for the flag carrier to service.

Zapanta was recently introduced to media early December as the new president of Seair.

Zapanta said he decided to join Seair because of "its unique service to the country in support of its tourism development goals."
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Business As Usual [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 242746 [Title] => PAL launches Las Vegas service today [Summary] => Philippine Airlines launches today a much-awaited service to Las Vegas, Nevada via Vancouver, Canada – its first destination in the North American interior and a fitting milestone on the anniversary of its founding as Asia’s first airline 63 years ago.

The inaugural flight, PR 106, departs Centennial Terminal 2 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport at 4:40 p.m. with all 264 seats on the Airbus A340-300 taken.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 222805 [Title] => Philippine Airlines forges ahead [Summary] => Scarred by the SARS crisis earlier this year, Philippine Airlines is mounting a spirited comeback that will see it add more destinations, enhance products and possibly acquire more aircraft within the next six months.

At the mid-point of its current fiscal year that started April 1, the national carrier can look back at a semester of ill fortune that wiped out much of the gains it made the previous year. But, with travelers taking to the skies again, it is forging ahead with modest but auspicious plans.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 212446 [Title] => PAL launches real-time flight check [Summary] => Philippine Airlines has introduced a new website facility that enables customers to ascertain the actual time of departure and arrival of any PAL flight, thus significantly easing the process of sending off or picking up passengers at the airport.

Called "Online Departure and Arrival," the facility is directly linked to the system used by the flag carrier to monitor all incoming and outgoing aircraft movement, which makes it possible to determine the status of flights up to the minute.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 203579 [Title] => PAL seeks P1-B damages from pilots union [Summary] => Philippine Airlines has filed a suit against its former pilots union seeking compensation for over P1.034 billion in actual and exemplary damages the latter caused PAL during an illegal 22-day strike in 1998.

In a complaint lodged at the National Labor Relations Commission, the flag carrier accused the Airline Pilots Association of the Philippines (ALPAP) of acting "with bad faith, malice and deliberate intent" to wreck PAL during the labor dispute.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 194460 [Title] => PAL, Mindanao biz group tackle air access [Summary] => Philippine Airlines and the Mindanao Business Council (MBC) have scheduled formal talks to forge a joint strategy for opening up the country’s second-largest island to more flights by foreign airlines.

Officials from both sides will sit down shortly to hammer out a "joint action agenda" that will push the so-called "pocket open skies" policy in Mindanao, primarily by convincing foreign carriers to exercise their unusual right to operate to the island, said MBC chairperson Joji Ilagan-Bian.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 193598 [Title] => PAL backs Mindanao ‘pocket open skies’ [Summary] => DAVAO CITY – Philippine Airlines threw yesterday its support behind the clamor of the Mindanao business sector to open up Davao and other underserved areas of Mindanao to more access by foreign airlines.

PAL president Avelino L. Zapanta, in a major policy speech to members of the influential Mindanao Business Council (MBC) at the Waterfront Insular Hotel here, proposed the formation of a joint task force to push for more international gateways on the island.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 174124 [Title] => Mass layoffs feared in ‘open skies’ regime [Summary] => The implementation of an unrestricted "open skies" aviation pact with the United States will have a devastating long-term impact on the livelihood of thousands of Filipino workers, Philippine Airlines president Avelino L. Zapanta warned, the other day.

While the immediate impact will be felt most in the aviation industry, the knock-on effects will hit many key economic sectors, resulting in mass layoffs and business closures, Zapanta told a news conference following PAL’s annual stockholders meeting Thursday.
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 170527 [Title] => PAL rebounds, posts P984-M profit in Q1 [Summary] => Philippine Airlines surged back to profitability after slipping into the red last year by posting a record P983.9 million net income for the April-to-June period this year, the first quarter of its current 2002-2003 fiscal year.

The surplus, the largest quarterly profit in PAL’s 61-year history, largely made up for the P1.6-billion annual loss the flag carrier suffered in the preceding fiscal year. That deficit was caused mainly by the fallout from the Sept. 11 US terror attacks.
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