PAL formally announce deployment of all their Boeing 777-300ER planes to the United States almost three weeks after breaking the news story on this blog. You can read our reports here. 

PAL President and COO Ramon S. Ang quips jokingly about Cebu Pacific President Lance Gokongwei being his idol.

(L-R) Philippine deputy director of civil aviation authority (CAAP), John Andrews, and director general William Hotchkiss, European Commission (EU) representative to the Philippines, Julian Vassallo, Philippine Transport secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya, president and CEO Cebu Pacific, Lance Gokongwei, and president Philippine airlines Ramon Ang, lock arms after a press conference in Manila, on April 10, 2014, after the EU lifted the ban on Cebu Pacific from flying to EU member nations. AFP PHOTO/TED ALJIBE /Getty Images)