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CEBU
Pacific (CEB) sold close to two million seats through
its web site in the last twelve months.
In a
statement, the budget airliner said its web site is now
the most visited travel web site in the country based on
an Alexa Top Sites report.
Alexa
Internet is a company that provides web information
services as well as web site traffic statistics.
CEB’s
web site ranked 147 among Philippine sites visited as of
May 2, 2007.
“We are
very proud to be the only airline that has been included
in Alexa Top Sites’ top 300 visited sites from the
Philippines report,” said Candice Iyog, vice president
for marketing and product. “We believe that more and
more people visit our web site and are buying their CEB
tickets due to the lowest fares, real- time flight
schedules and availabilities we provide online.”
The
airline unit of the Gokongwei group’s conglomerate, JG
Summit Holdings Inc., reported a net income of P133.9
million last year, from P3.7 million a year earlier.
Revenue also went up to P9.7 billion from P7.8 billion
in the same comparable period.
The
company attributed the improvement to a more
fuel-efficient fleet, better aircraft use, a dramatic
rise in the number and profitability of international
routes and a revenue management system that helped
maintain high passenger loads.
Iyog
said there are new products launched online which will
make travel with CEB more convenient and complete. This
includes online booking for car rental services, hotel
accommodations and travel insurance.
“We are
positive that many will avail of these services in our
website as we turn cebupacificair.com into a one-stop
shop for all your travel-related needs,” Iyog said.
She
added, “We are actively working with our suppliers to
give our guests the ability to change and cancel their
bookings on the web and we expect this to be up and
running by the end of 2007. We hope to provide both
travel agents and corporate travelers increased
functionality at the same time.” |
