Philippine Airlines, the national carrier of the Philippines in the South Asia Pacific region, has been offering world-class inflight services to flyers for years. Knowing about the services available to passengers on board helps to book seats in the right travel class as per their travel needs during the flight. Find the details of Philippine Airlines’ inflight food and entertainment services.

A trip by Philippine Airlines is akin to a great gastronomic experience in the sky, for Business Class travelers. The flyers are treated to a lavish menu of Western, Filipino and Japanese delights in the Business Class of Philippine Airlines, on a few specific routes. The dishes are selected and prepared by the airline’s culinary experts in compliance with the international inflight service standards. Philippine Airlines occasionally hosts food festivals in the sky and invites reputed chefs to entertain the premier flyers with the best culinary choices. Apart from regular special meals, the airline offers a fair selection of inflight beverages in both alcoholic and non-alcoholic categories. Red wine, white wine, whiskey, gin, brandy, rum, cognac, champagne, scotch and beer are served on board.

The inflight meal service is more or less the same in the Economy Class of Philippine Airlines. The selection of alcoholic beverages offered to the Economy Class travelers is comparatively narrow.

Philippine Airlines takes care of travelers’ entertainment needs in all travel classes. The cabins are equipped with state-of-the-art audio-visual monitor screens. The infrastructure of the new B777-300ERs integrates the Panasonic eX2 entertainment system in the whole cabin. Thales’ i5000 IFE System dishes out entertainment to the travelers flying in the B747 aircraft. The flyers can access a complete archive of audio-visual content in both Business and Economy classes. A personal monitor with audio video on demand (AVOD) feature is integrated to each seat in the cabins.

The AVOD system enables flyers to choose from a huge collection of digital entertainment options like games, movies, music and news. They can control the display and duration of programs using the touch-screen control. Philippine Airlines’ Business Class seats are equipped with 15.4 inch monitors.

Philippines Airlines offers “Flights of Fancy”, an exclusive inflight entertainment program, which makes viewing, listening and reading a joy in the sky. “Flights of Fancy” is a compilation of the latest Hollywood and Filipino films, movies, programs, and music albums. Passengers can take their picks from the collection and create personalized playlists. They can read on-screen instructions in four different languages – English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

Those who love reading when on the move can have a good time on Philippine Airlines’ flights. The airline offers several business, travel, fashion, sports, food and news magazines in English and other foreign languages to the First and Business Class travelers on international flights. “Mabuhay” is Philippine Airlines’ monthly inflight magazine, available in all travel classes. Besides, flyers can stay updated on the latest happenings in the world, through newspapers available on Philippine Airlines flights.

Philippine Airlines may revise its inflight meals and entertainment services at any time and without notification. IndianEagle.com books international trips with Philippine Airlines at the lowest airfare and provides 24×7 customer support.

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Philippine Airlines, the national carrier of Philippines, has recently launched the fleet modernization program which is kicked by the delivery of Airbus 330-300 High Gross Weight Jet. It is the newest state-of-the-art, long-range aircraft in the fleet. It features an ultramodern cabin with two travel classes – the Economy Class and the Business Class. The new cabin is equipped with inflight entertainment and Wi-Fi.

The arrival of Airbus 330-300 High Gross Weight Jet in Manila marked the third phase of Philippines Airlines’ fleet upgradation plan. The plan began to take shape with the Airbus A321 at the narrow-body jet phase in August 2013. The cabin of Airbus A330-300 High Gross Jet with plush interior and high-end infrastructure complements the other offerings from the airline.

Fleet modernization with A330-300 aircraft in operation is aimed at the enhanced comfort and convenience of Business Class flyers among the target groups of Philippines Airlines. The aircraft is spacious enough to accommodate a total of 350 passengers in the Economy Class and 18 in the Business Class. Out of 350 passengers, 323 will be accommodated in the Economy Class and the rest 27 in the premium Economy Class.

Ease is the focus of modernization in the economy class of the Airbus A330-300 High Gross Jet. Backed with a unique mechanism, the Economy Class seats lift up when the back reclines. This novel mechanism has optimized legroom and made the seat back more comfortable than before.

The dimension of the Economy Class seats is 31 inches while that of the Premium Economy Class is 34 inches. The Business Class cabin of Airbus A330-300 High Gross Jet is equipped with Equinox 3D seats which are innovative in design, luxurious in style and high in comfort quotient. The press of a button makes the seat roll out into a 6-ft long and 2-ft wide full-flat bed. The seats are ergonomically designed to make business travelers feel like sleeping on a couch in comfort and privacy.

The Equinox 3D seats integrate the features such as USB port, power outlet, reading light, mood-ambient light, coat hook, retractable privacy divider, glass holder, and adequate stowage space that business travelers look for. Another highlight of the Equinox 3D mechanism is electrical seat controller.

The inflight entertainment is unique to the service of Philippine Airlines. The airline provides a wireless onboard system to let travelers while away their time by tuning to music, movies and TV programs on their personal devices. Philippine Airlines is the first carrier to offer complimentary wireless inflight entertainment.

“We have revolutionized the way travelers are entertained in the air during the flight. Our GSM and Wi-Fi capability enables the passengers to connect with the world outside the aircraft through Internet and phone calls,” says Mr. Ramon S. Ang, President of PAL. The bi-class A330-300 High Gross Jet will be used to operate flights to Bangkok, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Nagoya, Seoul and Abu Dhabi round the year.

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