Philippine Airlines Delays/Cancellations

[Melburnian1]

Sunday 30 April sees PR209, the overnight thrice weekly from MNL down to MEL likely to pull in at 0826, 66 minutes late with A333 RP-C8771.

 

[Melburnian1]

The Thursday 4 May 0600 hours SYD - MNL (A343 RP-C3435) PR214 took off at 0626 but is expected to arrive 83 minutes late at 1238. Ths timetable may not have been adjusted for the end of daylight saving and needs to be.

 

[Melburnian1]

On Sunday 7 May, PR209 from MNL to MEL arrived at about 0840, 80 minutes late but with A333 RP-C8762 did not depart MEL until 1036, 96 late, taking off at 1050 hours. Arrival in MNL should be at around 1650, 75 minutes late.

PR212 (1030 hours SYD - MNL, A343 RP-C3441 that should disappear from the Sydney route in August 2017) was airborne at 1139; arrival should be at 1804, 54 minutes behind schedule.

 

[Melburnian1]

Not a delay as yet - though it may be in half an hour - but Thursday 11 May's overnight PR209 MNL - MEL looks like it will be operated by B773ER RP-C8772, the first time in ages that a Boeing 773ER from PR has journeyed to Australia, as these aircraft used to operate the MEL and SYD services for a while but about three years ago were withdrawn and used instead to Canada, the USA and in between to various Asian airports such as BKK and HND.

UPDATE: Last night FR24 changed this aircraft to the more usual A333, in this case RP-C8766.

This shows that FR24 is only as good as the information airlines feed to it, and that the latter can 'change their minds' occasionally as to which aircraft will travel where.

 

[Melburnian1]

On Sunday 14 May, the MNL - MEL PR209 (A333 RP-C8762) should arrive at 0802 hours, 42 minutes late.

 

[Melburnian1]

Friday 19 May has RP-C8762 (A333) on PR209 from MNL to MEL arriving at a likely 0757 hours, 37 minutes late.

 

[Melburnian1]

PR209 into MEL on Wednesday 31 May 2017 (A333 RP-C8762) should arrive at 0935, 135 minutes beyond its scheduled 0720 hours. It did not take off until 0022 hours despite a Tuesday 29 May 2115 hours scheduled departure.

PR211 (A343 RP-C3435) should arrive in SYD at 1028 hours, 98 late.

 

[Melburnian1]

On Wednesday 7 June 2017, PR209 (A333 RP-C8760) is arriving in MEL at 0755, 35 late after its overnight journey from MNL. This will slightly delay PR210, the 0900 hours back to MNL.

 

[Melburnian1]

PR214, the Thursday 8 June 0600 early morning SYD - MNL (A343 RP-C3437) should arrive 34 minutes late at 1229 hours.

 

[Melburnian1]

Wednesday 14 June 2017 has PR213, the 1115 MNL - SYD (A343 RP-C3441) that did not take off until 1154 hours arriving at around 2203 hours, 63 minutes late.

 

[Melburnian1]

Friday 16 June 2017 sees PR211, the redeye from MNL to MEL (A343 RP-C3436) suggested as arriving at 0915 hours, half an hour late.

PR210, the 0900 MEL - MNL (A333 RP-C8766) was airborne at a late 1024 so arrival should be at 1613, 53 minutes late.

 

[Melburnian1]

Sunday 18 June sees PR209 from MNL to MEL (A333 RP-C8760) arriving at 0750, half an hour late. This will slightly delay PR210, the 0900 hours back to MNL.

 

[Melburnian1]

Not helped by some required holding in the Tocumwal NSW area, PR209 (Thursday night 22 June ex MNL) is arriving in MEL on Friday 23 (A333 RP-C8766) at 0816 hours, 56 minutes late.

 

[Melburnian1]

A333 RP-C8763 on PR210 (0900 hours MEL - MNL on Sunday 25 June that took off at 1001) should arrive 62 minutes late at 1637 this afternoon.

 

[Melburnian1]

Sunday 2 July has seen PR210 (0900 hours MEL up to MNL, A333 RP-C8765) having taken off at 1017 with an expected 70 minute tardy arrival this afternoon at 1645.

 

[Melburnian1]

PR219 (A321 RP-C9912) on Tuesday 11 July would normally be the 1815 hours AKL - CNS (and on to MNL) but it diverted to BNE and is now on its way to CNS as at 2136 hours. Timetabled departure from CNS is normally 2310 but it will be after midnight tonight.

It appears that on 10 July, PR219 (A320 RP-C8620) had also diverted to BNE.

Earlier this morning, A343 RP-C3435 departed SYD on PR214, the 0600 hours SYD - MNL but appears to have returned to SYD. It eventually arrived MNL at about 1534 instead of its timetabled 1155 hours. This is a different aircraft from RP-C3437 that was unable to retract its landing gear on 23 April 2017 and had to do laps over Wollongong NSW prior to returning to SYD. These elderly A343s are in their last few weeks of operating the MNL - SYD - MNL flights as a refurbished A333 will apparently take over in mid August 2017.

 

[Melburnian1]

The diverted via BNE PR219 on 11 July arrived MNL at 0430, only an hour late, on Wednesday 12 July, a creditable performance as it also had to make the usual CNS intermediate stop.

Wednesday 12 July sees PR209, the redeye from MNL down to MEL suggested as arriving at 0801, 41 minutes late.

This is the first visit of one of PR's currently two refurbished A333s (in this case, RP-C8784) that have finally had in flight entertainment monitors fitted to all seatbacks, the Y seating reduced from nine across to eight across, true conventional lie flat beds installed in J in a comfortable 1-2-1 configuration and premium economy seating also introduced. Overall the seat count has reduced to 309 so these planes (there may be seven being done initially but all 15 may end up like this) will be much more competitive as the previous 3-3-3 layout in Y was horrid and the J previous lie flat beds were a strange design where with the aisle-window seats in the 2-2-2 configuration, the aisle bed lowered almost to the cabin floor, presumably so the window seat passenger could step over the aisle seat occupant. On the sole occasion I used J on this aircraft, I had a shadow, fortunately.

 

[Melburnian1]

On Friday 14 July, PR 209 (RP-C8784) from MNL to MEL should arrive at 0804 hours, 44 minutes late, partly due to entering a hold slightly to Bendigo's east. The 0900 hours PR210 back to MNL will be unable to depart before 0930 hours.

 

[Melburnian1]

RP-C8784 (A333) on PR210 (0900 hours MEL - MNL) is delayed due to its late PR209 arrival in MEL on Sunday 16 July; arrival is predicted 55 minutes late in MNL at 1630 hours.

 

[Melburnian1]

PR210 (0900 hours MEL - MNL, A333 RP-C8785) is arriving at about 1620 hours, 45 minutes late on Wednesday 19 July.