{"id":229043,"date":"2016-06-02T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=229043"},"modified":"2016-06-02T06:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T20:00:43","slug":"pal-open-routes-via-japan-granted-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pal-open-routes-via-japan-granted-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"PAL open to have routes via Japan if granted authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_229063\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-229063\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/PAL-pix-Gozon.jpg-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Gozon\" width=\"231\" height=\"278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-229063\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-229063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gozon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Philippine Airlines, soon to fly direct Manila-Saipan, is open to the idea of flying a route through Japan should they be given the authority to do so.<br \/>\nAccording to PAL senior vice president for airline operations Ismael Augusto Gozon, the route would be subject to negotiations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo long as we\u2019re given freedom traffic between the two countries, that might be a possibility,\u201d Gozon said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that\u2019s also subject to negotiations between the Philippines, Japan, the Saipan government or the U.S. government in general if that could be given,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gozon, it all depends on getting rights to fly between the two points: Japan and Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf that\u2019s an opportunity for us, obviously we\u2019d like to take it,\u201d Gozon said.<\/p>\n<p>PAL has been given rights to fly between the Philippines, Taiwan, and Japan and will start with its Manila-Taipei-Osaka route also in June.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure traffic to and from Saipan and Manila, Gozon said it is important to promote and to know the destination and features of both places as well as have the support of the tourism agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy having and knowing these things in both countries, we believe that\u2019s what will spur on the travel,\u201d Gozon said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea for Philippine Airlines is to promote the Philippines as a country\u2014not only Manila as a destination. We have beautiful sceneries in the Philippines and we have asked the Department of Tourism to be our partner in promoting the Philippines to the different parts of the world, Saipan included,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Saipan, we wanted ourselves to be known in this country as linking Saipan to the Philippines,\u201d Gozon added, \u201cIn the recent event in the Philippines, we felt the support not only of Century Travel but also of the travel bureau, MVA (Marianas Visistors Authority).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippine Airlines, soon to fly direct Manila-Saipan, is open to the idea of flying a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":229063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9352,170,4033,63],"class_list":["post-229043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-century-travel","tag-japan","tag-philippine-airlines","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}