Southeast Asian Airlines, the country’s premiere leisure airline, in response to increased demand, will be increasing flights to Caticlan to up to 32 flights per day. SEAIR presently has up to 18 flights a day to Caticlan, then stepping to up to 27 flights a day on August 14, and then to up to 32 flights a day on October 15 and onwards.
Boracay Island
This is in line with SEAIR’s mission of helping the Philippines’ tourism development, especially tourism to the island of Boracay. SEAIR has been serving this route since 1995 and has the longest history of uninterrupted service to Boracay direct via Caticlan.
SEAIR’s fleet of DO328’s and LET410’s have proven very good performance in short runways. “Our aircraft, the Dornier 328 and LET L-4110, are both capable of Short Take-Off and Landing (STOL). They are aerodynamically designed in a way that it is capable of landing and taking off in about 750 meters with full pay load.
These aircraft are the most appropriate for small runways where bigger commercial airplanes cannot land,” said Avelino Zapanta, SEAIR president. (more…)
