A commemorative postage stamp marking Philippine Airlines’s (PAL) 75th anniversary was presented by the Philippine Postal Corp. to PAL Chairman Dr. Lucio C. Tan and PAL President Jaime J. Bautista in a ceremony on November 8 at the Villamor Airbase Grandstand, Pasay City.
The stamp features PAL’s flagship aircraft, the Boeing 777-300ER, soaring over the world and Philippine maps.
It reflects PAL’s role of flying Filipinos to the far corners of the globe and back home, as well as linking the islands of a nation.
The design by the Philippine Postal Corp. also shows the flag carrier’s current mandate—to be a showcase of the best of the Philippines to the world. Many associate PAL to the Philippines while the Philippines, is best represented by PAL.
The stamp’s unveiling was a key sidelight of PAL’s public presentation of its seventh B777.
“Despite today’s electronic age of e-mails, chats and private messages, the postage stamp refuses to be relegated to the postal service archives,” Bautista said.
“They remain relevant because stamps contain messages of a certain time, certain place, person, event or era. They are rich in historical significance…and appreciated particularly by philatelists,” he added.
The Philippine Postal Corp. first issued the PAL stamp on October 19. The stamp captures a significant milestone in the history of Asia’s first airline.
For the last 75 years, PAL had caused the issuance of commemorative stamps to mark historic occasions.