Philippine Airlines fleet

The Philippine Airlines fleet is composed of wide-body and narrow-body aircraft from five families (excluding PAL Express fleet): Airbus A320, Airbus A321neo, Airbus A330, their flagship Airbus A350, and Boeing 777. As of October 13, 2018, there were 67 aircraft registered in the PAL fleet.[1]

Current fleet

Philippine Airlines Passenger Fleet
Aircraft In Service Orders Passengers[2] Notes
J S Y Total
Airbus A320-200 10 — 12 — 144 156 To be phased out or transferred to PAL Express and replaced by Airbus A321neo.[3]
Airbus A321-200 24[4] — 12 18 169 199
Airbus A321neo 4[5] 2[6] 12 — 156 168[7] Deliveries began in 2018.[6]
— 15[8]
TBA
 Deliveries scheduled to begin in 2019.
To replace A320-200.[8]
Airbus A330-300 15 — 18 33 312 363
24 267 309
Airbus A350-900 4 2 30 24 241 295 Deliveries started from 14 July 2018.[9]
Boeing 777-300ER 10[10] — 42 — 328 370
Total 67 19

Aircraft Types

Current fleet of Philippine Airlines
Philippine Airlines Airbus A320-200
Philippine Airlines Airbus A321-200
Philippine Airlines Airbus A330-300
Philippine Airlines Boeing 777-300ER

Airbus A320

The Airbus A320-200 currently flies in Southeast Asia, East Asia, and domestic destinations.

Philippine Airlines took delivery of its first Airbus A320 on 5 August 1997. The airline received 25 Airbus A320s since 1997 with the latest delivery in 2012. Since the airline bought Airbus A321-200s and Airbus A321neos, they announced the full retirement of the older A320s once the orders of the Airbus A321neos will be completed. The newer A320 fleet will be transferred to the airline's low-cost subsidiary PAL Express.[3]

Airbus A321

The Airbus A321 is the main workhorse aircraft for the short haul flights that serves South East, East Asia, Pacific (Guam), and Domestic destinations. They are sometimes deployed in Manila-Brisbane route and vice versa.

On 28 August 2012, Philippine Airlines ordered 34 Airbus A321-200 equipped with 2x IAE V2533-A5 engines, and 10 Airbus A321neos equipped with 2x Pratt & Whitney PW1133G-JM engines. The orders was randomly changed, PAL took 11 of the 34 Airbus A321ceo orders and changed them to order 11 A321neos and added one Airbus A321ceo order to its fleet.[11] The first Airbus A321ceo (Current Engine Option) was delivered in August 2013. On 29 March 2015, The airline said that it will be delivering the A321neo starting 2017 but agreed to postpone them and move to May 2018 due to problems with the Pratt & Whitney PW1100G-JM engines.[12]

The first 6 A321neos will end its delivery process by 2018 while the remaining 15 in the ACF variant will be delivered by 2019. The airline will open more routes as new planes arrive and decided to open the Manila to Sapporo route, the Manila to New Delhi route and the Manila to Mumbai route.[13]

The first and second A321neos were delivered in June 2018 and are currently flying on Cebu, Davao, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Brisbane, Sydney and Port Moresby routes.[7]

Airbus A330

The A330s are primarily deployed in Middle East, Australia, and South East and East Asia routes like the cities of Dubai, Riyadh, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo, and many more cities. They are also deployed in Honolulu and domestic flights like Puerto Princesa, General Santos City, Davao (flights starting with 1 (i.e. PR 1811/1812) and Cebu.

Philippine Airlines introduced the Airbus A330-300 in July 30, 1997, with the delivery of their first aircraft (F-OHZM). Philippine Airlines bought eight Airbus A330-300 in order to fill the gaps that the Airbus A300B4 will leave during its gradual retirement. In 2012, Philippine Airlines ordered 10 Airbus A330-300HGW,[14] but later expands orders to 15.

The newer A330 HGWs (8 of the 15 A330s were refurbished with a tri-class layout) uses a pair of Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines unlike previous A330s which uses a pair of General Electric CF6-80E1. The last A330 equipped with GE engines was retired on August 31, 2014.

Airbus A350

In 2016, Philippine Airlines placed an initial order of six Airbus A350-900 aircraft. The first aircraft was delivered in late 2018.

On 9 April 2016, Philippine Airlines (PAL) finalised the purchase agreement with Airbus covering the firm order of six A350-900s, plus six options. The contract firms up a Memorandum of Understanding announced during the 2016 Singapore Airshow. The A350-900, which will have a three-class configuration, are scheduled to be deployed on new routes to North America and Europe. The A350-900 will also replace the aging Airbus A340-300.

As of February 2018, Jaime Bautista, president of the airline’s holding company, PAL Holdings Inc, stated they were also interested in the larger Airbus A350-1000 variant.[15]

On July 14, 2018, PAL received its first A350-900.[16]

Boeing 777

The Boeing 777-300ER is primarily used for North American destinations such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, Toronto, and New York City. It is also used for the airline's only European destination so far, London, replacing the Airbus A340-300 in September 2017. Sometimes, they are deployed in Asian and Australian routes like Bangkok, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Melbourne.

In 2009, Philippine Airlines leased 2 Boeing 777-300ER to replace the former flagship Boeing 747-400 from GECAS. The first aircraft was delivered in 2009. In 12 March 2007, Philippine Airlines finalized the purchase agreement with Boeing covering the firm order of 2 Boeing 777-300ER, plus 2 options. The first PAL-owned aircraft was delivered in 20 June 2012,[17] with it being the third Boeing 777-300ER for the airline.

The purchase of Boeing 777s effectively signals the end of additional B747 orders, and a win for Boeing versus the Airbus A340-600 that was also being considered. In December 2016, 2 more B777s were delivered, leased from Intrepid Aviation. In March 2017, 2 more B777s were leased from Intrepid Aviation with both aircraft being delivered on December 2017.[18][19]

Historic fleet

Aircraft Total Year Introduced Year Retired Notes References
Airbus A300B4 14 1979 2001 [1][20]
Airbus A319-100 4 2006 2014 [1][21]
Airbus A340-200 4 1996 1999 Leased from AFS. Aircraft are from Cathay Pacific [1][22][23][24]
Airbus A330-300 8 1997 2014 Original batch ordered from Airbus
Airbus A340-300 4 1997 2014 Original batch ordered from Airbus
Airbus A340-300 6 2014 2018 Ex-Iberia aircraft; replaced initial batch of A340-300s
BAC One-Eleven 400 Series 4 1966 1971
BAC One-Eleven 500 Series Unknown Unknown 1992
Boeing 727-100 2 1981 1984 [1]
Boeing 737-300 17 1989 2008 [1][25]
Boeing 737-400 3 2000 2001
Boeing 747-200B 17 1979 2000 Aircraft registered EI-BWF, was bomb attacked as Flight 434. [1][26]
Boeing 747-400 4 1993 2014
Boeing 747-400M 1 1996 2014 Purchased the cancelled aircraft for Kuwait Airways, which ordered the plane as 9K-ADF.
Douglas DC-3 Unknown 1946 1978
Douglas DC-8 Unknown 1962 1979 [1]
Fokker 50 11 1988 1999 [1]
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 7 1974 1996 [1][27]
McDonnell Douglas MD-11CF 2 1996 1998 Leased from World Airways. [1][28]
McDonnell Douglas MD-11ER 2

Fleet maintenance

The entire Philippine Airlines fleet of Airbus and Boeing jets were formerly maintained in-house at the PAL Technical Center, which consisted of two hangars. The hangars contained an engine overhaul shop, two engine test cells and test shops. The responsibility of maintaining the fleet, as well as all the facilities, was subsequently transferred in 2000 to Lufthansa Technik Philippines (LTP), a joint venture of Hamburg-based Lufthansa Technik AG, a leading maintenance provider in aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul, and Macro Asia Corporation, one of the Philippines' leading providers of aviation support services and catering for foreign airlines, owned by Lucio Tan, the majority owner of PAL.[29] LTP currently maintains an 8-bay hangar and workshops occupying 110,000 square meters in Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport.[29][30]

Currently, some of the A320 fleet are being handled by PAL Express Maintenance and Engineering, including all A321 aircraft that are already delivered and those to be delivered. PAL Express is the budget arm of PAL and has overtaken PAL last 2012 in domestic seats second only to Cebu Pacific (5J).[31]

On May 18, 2018, Philippine Airlines signed a deal with Lufthansa Technik Philippines to maintain its new Airbus jets for 12 years. The deal, which took effect on May 31, is estimated to be worth P13.6 billion ($260 million) during its lifespan.[32]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Philippine Airlines Fleet Details and History". www.planespotters.net. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  2. ↑ philippineairlines.com - PAL Aircraft retrieved 25 October 2017
  3. 1 2 "Mabuhay Magazine January 2018". Retrieved January 16, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Orders and Deliveries Commercial Aircraft". Airbus SE. October 31, 2017. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Philippine Airlines' Fleet Details and History". Retrieved June 30, 2018
  6. 1 2 "Mabuhay Magazine January 2018". Retrieved January 16, 2016.
  7. 1 2 INQUIRER.net. "Philippine Airlines receives its first A321neo aircraft". Retrieved 2018-06-01.
  8. 1 2 "Mabuhay Magazine January 2018". Retrieved January 16, 2016.
  9. ↑ "PAL taking delivery of 1st A350-900 jet | Philstar.com". philstar.com. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  10. ↑ Recto Mercene (March 23, 2017). "PAL beefing up long-haul fleet with two new B777s". Airbus. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
  11. ↑ "PAL orders 54 aircraft worth $7B". Retrieved 2012-08-28
  12. ↑ "BusinessWorld | PAL defers delivery of A321NEO planes". www.bworldonline.com. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  13. ↑ "PAL sustains 4-Star rating with major projects". www.philippineairlines.com. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  14. ↑ https://www.rappler.com/business/11303-pal-orders-54-airbus-aircraft-worth-$7-b
  15. ↑ "Philippine Airlines looking at acquiring A350-1000 aircraft - Airliners.net". www.airliners.net. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  16. ↑ "PICTURES: Philippine Airlines receives first A350-900". Flightglobal.com. 2018-07-14. Retrieved 2018-07-14.
  17. ↑ "Boeing - Orders and Deliveries".
  18. ↑ "PAL's 9th B777". www.philippineairlines.com. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  19. ↑ "Philippine Airlines receives 10th Boeing 777-300ER from Avation PLC". Travel Daily Media. 2017-12-19. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  20. ↑ "Philippine Airlines Fleet of A300 (History) | Airfleets aviation". www.airfleets.net. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  21. ↑ "Philippine Airlines Fleet of A319 (History) | Airfleets aviation". www.airfleets.net. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  22. ↑ "Philippine Airlines Fleet of A340 (History) | Airfleets aviation". www.airfleets.net. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  23. ↑ "Philippine Airlines A340 (RP-C3438)".
  24. ↑ "A340 fleet: last Asian operator, Philippine Airlines, bows out". CAPA - Centre for Aviation. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
  25. ↑ "Philippine Airlines Fleet of B737 (History) | Airfleets aviation". www.airfleets.net. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  26. ↑ "Philippine Airlines Fleet of B747 (History) | Airfleets aviation". www.airfleets.net. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  27. ↑ "Philippine Airlines Fleet of DC10 (History) | Airfleets aviation". www.airfleets.net. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  28. ↑ "Philippine Airlines Fleet of MD11 (History) | Airfleets aviation". www.airfleets.net. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  29. 1 2 "Key Facts - Lufthansa Technik Philippines". www.lht-philippines.com. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  30. ↑ "Facility - Lufthansa Technik Philippines". www.lht-philippines.com. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
  31. ↑ Lufthansa Technik Philippines Archived 2008-06-22 at the Wayback Machine.. Retrieved April 22, 2008.
  32. ↑ News, ABS-CBN. "Philippine Airlines taps Lufthansa Technik for Airbus maintenance". ABS-CBN News. Retrieved 2018-05-24.

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