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Cebu Pacific, the Philippines’ largest national flag carrier, plans to increase flight frequencies by 18 percent in 2011, making available a total of 14.5 million airline seats for its passengers.

“We aim to fly 12 million passengers in 2011, an 18 percent increase from last year’s targets. Internationally, we plan to grow our passenger base by 35 percent,” said Cebu Pacific Vice President for Marketing and Distribution Candice Iyog.

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The airline said it is factoring in an expected 20 percent increase in passengers to Greater China, where it flies to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Taipei, Macau and Hong Kong. Cebu Pacific currently flies 80 flights weekly from the Philippines to Greater China.

Iyog added, “We have also just recently announced the beginning of Cebu Pacific‘s Manila-Busan operations this June. We already fly to South Korea’s 2nd largest city from Cebu, and this new route will allow more tourism and business between the two countries.”

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