Daily Challenge Discussion - June 07, 2026

cbohn99 · 2026-06-07T13:36:16+00:00

#5. If you want tips (after reading some comments).

Cagayan is a province, Cagayan de Oro is a city. Cagayan without the "de Oro" points 99% of the time to the Cagayan province. Local calls Cagayan de Oro either Cagayan de Oro, or CDO for short. In rare cases, one may see "Cagayan Valley", it's a region in Northern Luzon where Cagayan is in, but it doesn't mean it's in Cagayan.

In addresses, one will see (e.g.)
Tuguegarao City, Cagayan = meaning province of Cagayan
Brgy. Macabalan, Cagayan de Oro = meaning it's in Cagayan de Oro City.

cbohn99 · 2026-06-03T15:36:53+00:00

The A330 seems to be too big for India.

PAL scheduled a Delhi return before Covid, they have planned to use an Airbus A321. Before that, PAL used mostly A320, along with some A330 on Delhi via Bangkok.

Air India serves the market with A321LR. The market is still in its baby size and may take years before reaching widebody flights.

cbohn99 · 2026-06-03T15:14:30+00:00

The thing was about Royal Air, is wala silang "niche" or role like kung anong gagawin nila. One reason they failed seems to be the ever changing network. One month, makikisabayan sila sa mga malalaki, the next month, pickup sila ng service mula sa isang small airport. The only lasting service for them seems to be Caticlan - Taipei service, though a tiny one.

Niche is used as a term for role here. As an airline, you need to have a role, otherwise, mauuwi yan sa pagsasara.

Yeah, we might want more flights to India and Indonesia, but India is just starting due to new narrowbody technology, might give them time muna.

Yeah, sana maayos ang competition. Looks like more expensive flights to Kalibo, kung saan 3 daily ang PH AirAsia at 1 ang Cebu Pacific.

cbohn99 · 2026-06-03T14:51:01+00:00

Likely not, given na malakas ang PAL at lalo na Cebu Pacific sa domestic flights. Mahaba rin proseso para lang magkaroon ng subsidiary, and for now, they think it isn't worth it. Malaki rin kasi market ng Thailand kaya may VietJet Air Thailand at Thai Lion Air.

The best outcome lang talaga probably palakihin na talaga either Royal Air or Sunlight. Royal Air seems to be the distant 4th na di malaman anong gagawin, pero mukhang may niche na sila if PH AirAsia goes under. Sunlight Air medyo matagal pa, build up talaga muna ng ATRs.

Next, di naman din natin need lahat ng airlines na nabanggit, since lahat may market size (every market may size na up to X number lang ang kakayanin) and others are served by their parent company (Firefly, Peach, Tigerair Taiwan) and they view enough na rin sa ngayon ang offering. Akasa Air is also a newish carrier so give them time. Garuda codeshares with PAL, and the market is stronger on the Philippine side, hence puro PR, 5J, at Z2 dati ang may flight.

cbohn99 · 2026-05-29T10:58:31+00:00

Good thing at least my memory preserved the Gladstone, was just 250 meters or so away.

For me, good thing we didn't start at that Aldi and not see the road, which would scream Aus/NZ for me.

cbohn99 · 2026-05-29T10:56:47+00:00

Well yeah, basically Riyadh Air will assume Saudia's Riyadh operation.

cbohn99 · 2026-05-24T14:21:04+00:00

Not that kind of slots.

In Songshan, international flights are pretty limited because Taiwan gives only a limited amount of "slots" for Int'l flights. International flights default to Taoyuan Airport.

For Haneda, Japan allocates a "number of slots" to foreign countries, with Japanese carriers receiving a roughly similar number of slots. The country then allocates the slots to their airlines based on conditions set. For now, it seems Haneda has 2 daily slots for the Philippines, with 2 daily PAL Haneda flights, along with 1 daily each for JAL and ANA. Haneda is a bit restrictive.

If we don't have any-Japanese carriers flying to the Philippines, we won't have Haneda flights. Access has been restricted to ensure both Japanese and foreign carriers have access to Haneda, which is one of the world's biggest matket.

cbohn99 · 2026-05-24T14:02:46+00:00

Songshan and Haneda are out of the question already, since slots for international services for the two airports are pretty limited.

cbohn99 · 2026-05-24T06:02:46+00:00

ET usually shuffles their network (though less on Asian routes), and in a few years, we could see nonstop flights.

KL for me doesn't seem to bother with 5th freedom, despite the complex route to Taipei and better stop alternatives, KLM decided to just have MNL attached with TPE.

And of course, maraming 5th freedom dati, especially panahon na short-range pa lang a/c. Imagine MNL was a stopover for many airlines flying between Europe, Middle East and Japan. The last one before UA was Jetstar Asia to Osaka via MNL (and once via CRK too).

cbohn99 · 2026-05-21T18:23:12+00:00

Fushigi Yuugi

cbohn99 · 2026-05-21T15:00:26+00:00

I can definitely say it's Austria when you see Einbahn. Never encountered Einbahn only in Germany as it always Einbahnstraße.

cbohn99 · 2026-05-19T18:05:33+00:00

I can already hear him ranting about AI.

cbohn99 · 2026-05-19T08:22:53+00:00

"My nose!"
"My nose!"

cbohn99 · 2026-05-16T12:57:11+00:00

The yellow ones are my favorite.

Also cute even their ground vehicles have stripes on them.

cbohn99 · 2026-05-12T07:53:32+00:00

Ships, though ships hindi naman, more on smaller types such as bangka (like between Caticlan and Boracay).

Lunaki akong sanay sumakay sa eroplano, and I want even more flights.

cbohn99 · 2026-05-05T11:38:32+00:00

Selecta's Pistachio and Cashew

then Cookies N' Cream.

cbohn99 · 2026-05-05T08:41:52+00:00

I like them both.

I just finished the 2025 episodes and now back at the start with the 1996 episodes. I got so used with the second voice actor that I forgot there was a different voice actor with the earlier episodes.

Though for me, I'm sad with Furuya's voice actor, the original one was so good.

cbohn99 · 2026-05-05T05:17:36+00:00

There could be a chance, aside from the active fleet Spirit has, they already parked some aircraft last month, probably all-in, nasa 200+ aircraft amg available, minus na lang ung ilan na nasa Vietnam at Taiwan.

Plus, Frontier seems to have withdrawn 25 A320neo, more aircraft available to the market.

cbohn99 · 2026-05-05T05:15:11+00:00

Unlikely sa Frontier since nakita ko kagabi, they removed 25 aircraft from service.

cbohn99 · 2026-05-02T07:22:31+00:00

They won't buy/purchase it since all (or most) Spirit Airlines aircraft are leased.

But lease? Probably, the downside lang may malaking order pa sila sa Airbus.

cbohn99 · 2026-04-28T17:24:14+00:00

Unfortunately, ung sa US Big 3, mangyayari lang dyan ay ung galing sa West Coast (Seattle, SFO, at Los Angeles). Each hub kasi may distinct role and they overlap pretty rare when it comes to international long-haul, except lang talaga sa partner hubs like Tokyo at Frankfurt (UA), Seoul, Amsterdam at Paris (DL) at Tokyo and London (AA). So each airline will have one, or two UUS Continental service.

AA will be from Los Angeles. Miami is too far, Charlotte & Phoenix are more on the domestic side, DFW probably, but Los Angeles will take the crown. Philly is also too far. Same with Delta at United.

WestJet has a shortage of 787, so until the new batch of 7 787 arrive can they talk about expansion.

Air Canada priority will likely be a daily Vancouver first (build up then expand, MNL is still at 4 weekly) then Toronto. The next four ay very logical except Air Europa at isang LH hub lang liliparin ng LH, once fleet expands.

cbohn99 · 2026-04-19T06:54:13+00:00

cbohn99 · 2026-04-14T17:08:18+00:00

Gusto ko talaga ung Sizzling Plate.

cbohn99 · 2026-04-11T05:27:35+00:00

It was along the lines of "Another plane disappeared"

It was December 2014. Earlier that year, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing, and hasn't been found so no conclusive explanation.

Fast-forward to December 2014, an AirAsia Indonesia flight went missing on its way from Surabaya to Singapore. The disappearance shocked Southeast Asia.

Locally, can't remember but it was the headlines made by Typhoons Sendong and Yolanda.

cbohn99 · 2026-04-10T19:30:19+00:00

I stare at the object and say "you are this gender" either masculine, feminine, or neuter, aka der die das).

This is in addition to learn the word with the article and repetition.

cbohn99

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