MCIA Welcomes Cebu-Kaohsiung Route

The Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) welcomes Philippines AirAsia’s newest route to Kaohsiung International Airport in Kaohsiung City in Taiwan.

Starting on August 1, Philippines AirAsia will commence their direct flight operations on the Cebu-Kaohsiung (vice-versa) route.

The trip will be thrice a week, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

The aircraft is an Airbus A320 with 180 seating capacity all for economy class.

“We at the MCIA community are excited by the opening of AirAsia’s Cebu-Kaohsiung route. GMCAC is committed to positioning Cebu as a hub in Southeast Asia and in the Philippines. Our location makes MCIA the ideal jump-off point to other tourist destinations in the central and southern islands, and we are making this happen through strategic airline marketing efforts and partners such as AirAsia,” GMR MEGAWIDE Cebu Airport Corporation (GMAC) President Louie Ferrer said.

A water cannon salute will welcome the inaugural flight from Kaohsiung to Cebu and its passengers on Thursday at 4:40 p.m.

AirAsia will also launch the Clark-Kaohsiung route on the same day marking Kaohsiung as the airline’s 10th international destination to be launched this year.

With the addition of this new route, Mactan Cebu Airport is now connected to 28 domestic destinations and 23 international destinations with 9 Philippine-based and 17 foreign airline partners. (MLC)