Dubai: A Philippine carrier catering to the Middle East Market has slashed its prices once more and this time, passengers are being enticed with airfares for less than Dh200.
Cebu Pacific Air has just announced its “all-in sale,” offering one-way tickets at Dh196, consequently knocking off regular fares by approximately 75 per cent.
It's the second price cut the airline has announced in approximately two weeks. With the new discount, passengers travelling from Dubai to Manila can spend less than Dh500 on return tickets.
The reduced fares, however, will expire after October 9, Monday, or until the last available seat is taken, and it will be valid for travel between January 1 and June 30, 2018.
The airline said that the all-in rate is inclusive of base fare, applicable fees and taxes, web administration fee and seven kilos of hand-carry baggage allowance.
A number of carriers, including flydubai, Emirates and Air Arabia have recently slashed their fares in a bid to stimulate demand. Air Arabia had earlier offered price-busting return fares ranging between Dh599 and Dh899 for tips to several Indian destinations.
Flydubai has also announced 50 per cent price reductions across a number of routes. Cebu Pacific’s latest promotion is the second fare cut it has announced since late September, when flyers were offered Dubai to Manila flights for Dh469 and return trips for Dh434.
Terminal fees
Cebu Pacific also announced that overseas Filipinos in the UAE can now pay the domestic passenger service charge (DPSC), commonly known as “terminal fee” right at the point of booking and no longer need to queue up at the counters when they book their flights with Cebu Pacific.
The carrier has integrated the DPSC into the cost of its tickets for all domestic flights operating out of airports managed by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP). The integration of the terminal fee DPSC across all booking systems of Cebu Pacific took effect last September 15, 2017.
Integration of the terminal fee into fares is expected to benefit around one million Filipino expatriates residing in the UAE.
CAAP-managed airports include all domestic terminals across the Philippines, except for the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, the Mactan-Cebu International Airport, the Clark International Airport and the Godofredo P. Ramos Airport in Caticlan (Boracay).
Depending on the airport, CAAP terminal fees range from 50 pesos to 200 pesos. Passengers who are merely transiting through the 33 CAAP-managed airports are exempted from paying the DPSC.
The Manila International Airport Authority and the Mactan-Cebu International Airport Authority have included domestic terminal fees for the Manila and Cebu airports in ticket payments since 2013.
