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PAL: Canceled Canada flight not due to BBM’s Switzerland trip

/ 08:23 AM January 16, 2023
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MANILA, Philippines — Philippine Airlines (PAL) over the weekend clarified that the cancellation of a flight to Vancouver, Canada was not caused by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s trip to Davos, Switzerland.

PAL issued the statement after a social media user tweeted that “PAL had to cancel its 777 flight to Vancouver today, because Junior commandeered it for his trip to Switzerland.”

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“Philippine Airlines (PAL) wishes to clarify a social media post alleging that a PAL aircraft was reassigned to the Presidential Charter flight for Davos, causing the cancellation of today’s Manila – Vancouver flight,” the airline said on Sunday.

“The Manila – Vancouver flight originally slated to depart Sunday, 15 January 2023 was cancelled last Friday, 13 January 2023 due to an aircraft situation (tech issue),” it added.

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The B777  aircraft assigned to the Vancouver flight with registry RP-C7773, is “currently grounded for maintenance.”

The assigned aircraft for the presidential flight, PAL said, was another B-777 with a different registry number.

“Charter arrangements for this aircraft was made weeks ago and DID NOT cause the Manila – Vancouver flight cancellation,” PAL said.

The Twitter user claimed that the flight crew was forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement for the first time in the airline’s history.

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