Cebu Pacific suspends Kuwait, Riyadh and Doha flights

Cebu Pacific, the low cost carrier based out of the Philippines has officially announced that due to high losses and the ill conceived ultra low fares that they were charging passengers to fly them from the GCC to MNL v.v., they shall be suspending flights to 3 huge Middle Eastern markets effective June 2017.

Kuwait which is currently operated 4 times per week will be cut off from 14JUN. Over the past year, 244,000 passengers flew between KWI and MNL.

Doha which is currently operated 3 times per week will be suspended effective 02JUL and it had a P2P demand of 230,000 pax over the past year.

Riyadh which is currently operated 3 times per week will be suspended effective 03JUL and it had a P2P demand of 440,000 pax over the past year.

Link:

http://gulfbusiness.com/cebu-pacific-suspends-flights-manila-doha-riyadh-kuwait/

Comments:

This is what happens when airlines such as 5J think that they can sustain selling US$ 200-250 round trip fares all taxes inclusive between KWI and MNL for a flight that takes almost 10 hours to operate !