Philippine Airlines Expands Fleet with Airbus A350-1000 for Long-Haul Flights

Potentially, Philippine Airlines (PAL) will use new long-range aircraft on trips to Europe.

At the Paris air show, the airline agreed to purchase nine Airbus A350-1000s that can travel nonstop from Manila to the east coast of the US and Canada.

The new plane will join the airline’s existing fleet of two A350-900s.

The A350-1000 fleet will have a three-class seating arrangement that can accommodate 380 passengers.

Stanley Ng, the president and COO of PAL, said: “This order will see PAL operating one of the youngest and most modern wide-body fleets in Asia. 

“We selected the A350-1000 to give PAL the power to match capacity closely to predicted demand on both the very longest routes to the North American east coast but also on our prime trunk routes to the west coast and potentially to Europe as well. 

“At the same time the aircraft will use significantly less fuel than older aircraft of a similar size, which also brings an important reduction in carbon emissions.”