BORACAY - Summer 2009

The rainy season came in early this year. We had scheduled a flight to Boracay on May 22 for a summer getaway but it had been raining the previous weeks already and the summer season was already declared over. Well, we were indeed blessed for that weekend, the weather was great! (The two weekends after we went, the rains were back).

Our PAL flight to Caticlan was scheduled at around 8 am. We left for the airport early and went to the New "PAL" International Airport (Naia 2) near the New Nayong Pilipino. It was there that we were informed that the PAL flights to Caticlan were to originate from the other "New" Airport at Nichols where we thought the only flights were the Cebu-Pacific flights. Luckily, we were early so we had plenty of time to go there.

The airport was nice, clean and spacious. We could say, it was up to par with other International Airports in the asean region and definitely much better than the old domestic airport.

It turned out that our PAL Express (Air Philippines) flight was cancelled but we were immediately booked for the next flight which was leaving just about half an hour later.

The stores, lounges and waiting areas were also nice. The difference maybe with the other airports, was that there were no the duty-free shops.

The boarding time was even a little earlier. We took a shuttle for a very short transfer to our plane which was smaller than the usual planes used for other local flights.