AirlineRatings.Com recognized 4-star carrier Philippine Airlines as the “Most Improved Airline Award 2019,” citing its “move to expand its global footprint using new generation fuel-efficient aircraft equipped with the latest cabins.”
“Philippine Airlines has expanded its global footprint by more than 60 percent in recent years with innovative services such as a single-aisle A321neo flight between Manila and Brisbane and an A350-900 trans-polar route to New York,” the rating body said.
“The four times weekly A321neo service featured the first flat-bed business product on a narrowbody aircraft operated to Australia and replaced three flights a week run by a fuel-hungry A340,” it said.
AirlineRatings.com said PAL’s fleet modernization initiatives are “seeing the new breed of more extended range, single-aisle planes replace bigger aircraft on routes of up to eight hours and part of an ongoing expansion by the Filipino carrier.”