List of airlines of the Philippines

The following is a list of airlines of the Philippines.

History

Prior to the second liberalization of the Philippine airline industry in 1995, state-owned Philippine Airlines enjoyed virtual monopoly with the country's adopted policy of "one country, one airline" imposed during President Ferdinand Marcos' administration. The government's subsidy in the form of mail freight payments supported the company's massive expansion program in the 1960s. During the 1970s, the government ordered the absorption by Philippine Air Lines, Inc. of two other privately owned airlines; Air Manila and Filipinas Orient Airways - to form Philippine Airlines as the single flag carrier of the Republic of the Philippines.

This list of airlines enumerates local airlines in the Philippines which have a current air operator's certificate issued by the Civil Aviation Authority.

Commercial airlines

A Boeing 777 of Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of Philippines

Airline	Image	ICAO	IATA	Callsign	Commenced operations	Headquarters
AirAsia Philippines		APG	PQ	COOL RED	2012	Angeles City
AirAsia Zest		EZD	Z2	ZEST AIRWAYS	1995	Pasay City
Cebu Pacific		CEB	5J	CEBU	1996	Pasay City
PAL Express		PAL	2P	PHILIPPINE	1996	Pasay City
Philippine Airlines		PAL	PR	PHILIPPINE	1941	Pasay City
SkyJet		—	M8	—	2012	Pasay City
Cebgo		SRQ	DG	BLUEJAY	1995	Pasay City
ITI Air		ITI	D5	—	—	Pasay City

Charter airlines

Airline	Image	ICAO	IATA	Callsign	Commenced operations
Aero Majestic Airways
Air Juan					2013
Air Link International Airways
Air Republiq Airlines				Republiq	2011
Aviatour Air
Cyclone Airways					1960
Paradise Air			DJ
INAEC / Iloilo-Negros Air Express					1933
Interisland Airlines		ISN		TRI-BIRD
Island Aviation		SOY		SORIANO
Legendary Air		LEG	GB	LEGENDARY	2015
Lionair
Mosphil Aero		MPI		MOSPHIL	2006
Northsky Air
Pacificair
Pacific Pearl Airways		PPM		PACIFIC PEARL	2006
SkyJet			5M		2012
South Phoenix Airlines					2010
Subic Seaplane

Cargo airlines

Airline	ICAO	IATA	Callsign	Commenced operations
Pacific Ocean Air (Air)	BOI		ABAIR
Asia Overnight Express	AOT	OE	ASIA OVERNIGHT
Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines	PEC	Q8	PAC-EAST CARGO
TransGlobal Airways	TCU		TRANSGLOBAL	2005

Market share

Although, the Philippines lists many registered airline companies mostly chartered, the competition has reduced from four competing airline groups to three. In 2014, Cebu Pacific which acquired the Philippine unit of Tigerair, continues to surge with 61% of the market share, up from 57%. The Philippine Airlines-PAL Express group continues to plummet from decades of dominance which only got 29.2%, down from its previous share of 35% in the domestic market. The PAL group however is still unbeaten by Cebu Pacific group on the international market. The AirAsia Zest-AirAsia alliance gets managed to increased its market share slightly to 9.6% from 8%.

In 2013, SkyJet Airlines, a new airline company launched its domestic commercial flights to leisure island destinations such as Batanes, Palawan, Baler, Balesin and Boracay. For island destinations, SkyJet is competing with another small airline Island Transvoyager.

In individual performance for passenger traffic, Cebu Pacific still tops overall with combined domestic and international passenger traffic in 2014.

1. Cebu Pacific (54.66%)
2. PAL Express (25.31%)
3. Zest Airways (AirAsia) (8.29%)
4. Tigerair Philippines (6.41%)
5. Philippine Airlines (3.91%)
6. AirAsia,Inc. (1.4%)
7. SkyJet (less than 1%)
8. Island Transvoyager (less than 1%)

Other locally registered airlines operate either domestic charter services or cargo services only.

See also

• List of airlines
• List of defunct airlines of Philippines
• List of airports in the Philippines

External links

• Philippine Flight Network news