Philippine Airlines

Advantages: Food, service; clean, neat planes; up-to-date in-flight movies; excellent seats/legroom; smooth landings; Mabuhay lounge.
Disadvantages: Sometimes late (due to small fleet?); minuscule presence in Europe, none in US east coast.

...take the Philippines' national carrier, Philippine Airlines (PAL), once more for this year's trip. This, because of a most pleasant hop I had between Hong Kong and Manila. (The 17-hour flight from Chicago to Hong Kong was sheer agony in United Airlines' extremely tight seats and mediocre food in Economy class.) And its relatively cheaper fare (about $2430 for Business Class; ~ 2,000 EUR or 1,380 GBP) for a direct Los Angeles - Manila flight (with ...
...Shopping. Reading material includes Philippine newspapers such as Philippine Daily Inquirer, Malaya, Manila Times and Manila Standard, the International Herald Tribune, and assorted US, European and Philippine glossy magazines (In Style, Time, The Economist, etc.). Each seat pocket holds a copy of 'Mabuhay', the in-flight magazine, and 'Fiesta', the duty-free shopping magazine. In Business Class (and First Class), up-to-date movies can be viewed ... Read review

My mom & brother flight from SFO to Manila. All luggages where check-in all at the same time. By the time they get to Manila 1 luggage was missing which is critical because it is where my mom's prescription supply for 3 months for diabetic, high pertension and blood pressure pills. She only hand carry good for 3 days use since it is only about 12 hours flight. They call me to follow up here with the Airlines which I did. PAL can't even handle the simple process of transferring luggage. It is the airlines negligence. I go home yearly but almost 10 years I don't fly with PAL. I usually fly with Northwest or Japan Airlines.