Philippine Airlines > Reviews

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 ... 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.