As of August 2021, a total of 31,433,450 COVID vaccine doses were ordered by the Philippines to vaccinate 15% of the population. Joint efforts made by the national government, local governments, and private industry like Cebu Pacific have flown 16.5M doses of vaccines to date, on top of over 10.5 million doses across the Philippines.
As to CEB, this is considered as one of their biggest milestone for reaching this far in just six months from March to mid-September.
Cebu Pacific Chief Strategy Officer, Alex Reyes said, they are highly aware of the integral of the vaccines in safeguarding the health of every Juan during the pandemic. Reyes added that CEB is honored to assist the government in ensuring the safe deliveries of these life-saving vaccines and still looking forward to carrying more across its domestic network.
Cebu Pacific is one of the first local airlines to bring in vaccines and transport them nationwide. It is the only airline to date that transports vaccines as hand carry, enabling even the smaller shipments to be carried safely and released faster to key local cities such as Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Dumaguete, General Santos City, and Puerto Princesa.
In line with this, is the commitment of CEB as a key partner of the country’s nation-building efforts. Earlier this year, CEB has joined Ingat Angat as their official airline partner to help jumpstart the economy.
The Philippines’ leading airline also takes pride in its employee vaccination program, “The COVID Protect” through the Gokongwei Group. This has already vaccinated 95% of its flying crew and is on track to completing employee inoculation by October this year.
