252 seafarers return home via PAL flight to the Caribbean
Aviation Updates Philippines – Flight PR-8116, a Philippine Airlines Airbus A350 flight, is
currently heading to Grantley Adams International Airport in Bridgetown, Barbados to bring
home 252 seafarers of various nationalities from the Royal Caribbean of
the Sea Cruise Line (RCCL).
According to PAL Spokesperson Cielo Villaluna, the special flight departed
from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 2 on Wednesday night.
Before it proceeded to the Caribbean, the flight had a crew change and a technical stop in Vancouver, Canada.
As of writing, RP-C3501, the aircraft in use, is en-route to
Bridgetown. After an eight-hour journey, the seafarers are expected to
arrive in the island country at 8:44 am local time. From there, the
passengers will proceed to their respective countries in the Americas.
The repatriation flight to Barbados is only one of many special missions
undertaken by PAL to repatriate Filipinos and foreign nationals to and from
abroad. Just earlier, a PAL flight from Miami arrived in Manila carrying 345
Filipino nationals also from RCCL.
"Since the start of the enhanced community quarantine period, PAL has been
carrying out sweeper flights and international special flights to ferry the
stranded home, in coordination with foreign embassies and shipping lines,"
Cielo Villaluna said.
Albeit being a repatriation flight, PAL recently sent off its farthest
non-stop flight from Manila to Miami on Tuesday — roughly 9,314 miles
in distance, based on the Great Circle Mapper. This was another milestone
for the flag carrier since it was the first-ever non-stop flight between the
two cities.
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