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The airport's main hub is in Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay City and Parañaque City, Philippines in Metro Manila, nearby the city of Manila.

Philippine Airlines was began in February 1941 by a group of businessmen led by Andres Soriano. Government investment in September of the same year paved the way for its nationalization.

It started operations in March 1941 with a single Beech Model 18 aircraft making one flight daily between Manila (from Nielson Field) and Baguio. In 1946, after the war, PAL resumed operations with services to 15 domestic points. Its fleet consisted of five Douglas DC-3s. In the same year, a chartered DC-4 ferries 40 American servicemen to California, making PAL the first Asian airline to cross the Pacific. In the same year, it started regular service between Manila and San Francisco. Philippine Airlines nowadays uses a fleet of all GE-powered BoeingThe Boeing Company ( NYSE:BA) is a leading American aircraft and aerospace manufacturer, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with its largest production facilities near Seattle, Washington. It is also a defense contractor. It is listed on the New York Sto 737-300The Boeing 737 is a popular short-to-medium range commercial passenger jet aircraft continuously manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes since 1967. Over 5,000 have been sold since its introduction in 1967, more than any other commercial airliner, and's and 737-400's, 747-400The Boeing 747 also popularly known as the jumbo jet is the second largest passenger airliner after Airbus A380. Until the first commercial flight of the A380 in 2006, however, it remains the largest aircraft in commercial service. The four-engine 747, pr's and Airbus A320-200The Airbus A320 is a short to medium range commercial passenger aircraft manufactured by Airbus Industrie. It is the best-selling passenger aircraft in the world (at 2003) and was the first airliner with a digital fly-by-wire flight control system, where's, A330-300The Airbus A330 is a large-capacity medium-to-long-range commercial passenger airplane manufactured by Airbus Industrie. It was developed at the same time as the four-engined A340. Airbus intended the A330 to compete directly in the ETOPS (Extended Twin-e's, A340-300The Airbus A340 is a long-range widebody commercial passenger airplane manufactured by Airbus Industrie. It is similar in design to the sister, the A330 but uses four engines rather than two. It has one of the longest ranges of any commercial airliner.'s.

PAL has 21 crash records, the last one being in 1999 and most of them being in its earlier years.

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