MANILA, Philippines?Fourteen flights to and from Cagayan, Isabela, Batanes, Palawan and Tacloban City were cancelled Thursday as the bad weather triggered by the northwest monsoon battered many parts of the country.
As of 3:30 p.m., the Manila International Airport Authority said in a public advisory that cancelled trips out of the NAIA Terminal 3 were two Cebu Pacific Air flights to Tuguegarao City in Cagayan that were supposed to leave at 7:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Another Cebu Pacific flight to Cauayan City in Isabela set to leave at 12:40 p.m. was also cancelled.
Consequently, three Cebu Pacific return trips?scheduled 10:10 a.m., 3:15 a.m. and 3 p.m.--to Manila were also cancelled.
Also from Terminal 3, an Air Philippines Tugegarao-bound flight, set to leave 10:40 a.m., was cancelled, as well as its 12:55 p.m. return trip.
At Terminal 2, the 10:40 a.m. 3:19 p.m. departure of a Philippine Airlines flight to Tacloban City in Leyte was also canceled, together with its 6:15 p.m. return trip.
Meanwhile, at the Manila Domestic Terminal, a South East Asian Airlines flight to Basco, Batanes set at 8:20 a.m. ant its 12:05 return trip, were also cancelled.
A Zest Air flight to Busuanga in Palawan set at 9:40 a.m. and its 12 noon return trip were also cancelled.
Other domestic flights were also delayed, including two SEA Air flights to Caticlan in Aklan and another PAL flight to Puerto Princesa in Palawan.
International flights were also affected. At Terminal 1, the arrivals of a Royal Dutch Airlines flight, KL-803, from Amsterdam, and a China Airlines flight, CI-711 from Kaoshiung, Taiwan, were delayed by about three hours.