Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Meal coupon courtesy of Air Philippines

This is kind of late now. But I remembered our lousy experience with PAL when I saw this meal coupon in my stack of documents.

When my co-employee and I were about to check in for our flight back to Cebu from Iloilo we were met with the announcement that our flight was cancelled. No reason was given. I am more inclined to believe that the low-cost flight was cancelled because there was not enough passengers.

Our other fellow employee had gone earlier on the Cebu Pacific plane although we arrived at the airport together. To think that he was a little miffed while we were yet in Cebu because he was not able to book on the same flight with us.

It would be soon dark and by then we should have been home in Cebu were it not for the cancellation. Many passengers were asking for meals or accommodation until the next flight. The station manager of Air Philippines handed out meal coupons and offered a roundabout passage to Cebu via Manila aboard a big PAL jet.

It seemed Air Philippines/PAL thought we all deserved a 75-Peso worth of dinner at an airport bakery.