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Notes. [6] Cebu Air, Inc. (PSE: CEB), operating as Cebu Pacific (stylized in lowercase), is a Philippine low-cost airline based at Pasay in Metro Manila. Founded in 1988, [2] it is Asia's first low-cost airline and the Philippines' largest leading airline. [7][8][9] It offers scheduled flights to both domestic and international destinations.
Cebu Pacific Air is an airline owned by Cebu-based Gokongwei family. On May 28, 2008, Cebu Pacific was named as the world's number one airline in terms of growth. The airline carried a total of almost 5.5 million passengers in 2007, up 57.4% from 2006. [81] On January 6, 2011, Cebu Pacific flew its 50 millionth passenger (from Manila to Beijing).
The University of the Philippines Cebu (Cebuano: Unibersidad sa Pilipinas sa Sugbo; Filipino: Unibersidad ng Pilipinas sa Cebu; also referred to as UPC or UP Cebu) is a public research university and the youngest constituent university of the University of the Philippines System located in Cebu City, the capital city of Cebu province in the Philippines.
Number of rooms. 562. Website. www.waterfronthotels.com.ph. Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino is a four star hotel located in Cebu City, Philippines. The hotel has 561 guestrooms. [1] Hotel function rooms include the Pacific Grand Ballroom, with over 2,000 m 2 floor area, ten function rooms, and two pool gardens.
In 1996, Gokongwei was tasked by his father to take on the challenge of building a new low-cost airline, Cebu Pacific Air. [13] In February 1998, two years after the company's inception, Cebu Pacific Flight 387 crashed into a mountainside, killing all 104 people aboard. At the time, it was the nation's worst air disaster.
Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Sugbo; Filipino: Lungsod ng Cebu), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 964,169 people, [ 8 ] making it the sixth-most populated city in the nation and the most populous in the ...
Osmeña Boulevard is a major arterial thoroughfare in Cebu City, Philippines. It is the city's "main street" which travels in a generally northwest–southeast orientation linking the old downtown district of San Roque near the harbor with the modern uptown Capitol Site district. Beginning at M.J. Cuenco Avenue in the east, the boulevard heads ...
John Robinson Lim Gokongwei Jr. (traditional Chinese: 吳奕輝; simplified Chinese: 吴奕辉; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gô͘ E̍k-hui; pinyin: Wú Yìhuī; 11 August 1926 – 9 November 2019) [2] was a Filipino banker, businessman, investor, and philanthropist. His conglomerate company JG Summit Holdings, Inc., had an extensive panoply of business and ...