MANILA, Philippines – Netherlands-based airline KLM will reconsider flying to Manila if the Aquino administration makes good on its promise to remove taxes currently hampering the economic viability of foreign carriers flying to the Philippines, an airline official said.
This developed even as the Board of Airline Representatives (BAR), an organization of some 30 foreign carriers with services to the Philippines, commended the Aquino administration for implementing reforms liberalizing the country’s aviation sector.
Cees Ursem, regional manager for KLM in the Philippines and the Far East, said the airline “welcomes the developments in the tax issue and is looking forward to the final implementation of abolishing these taxes for the benefit of tourism, trade, and the network of overseas Filipinos. This decision will definitely help to reconsider our operations in the future and continue our 60 years of uninterrupted services to the Philippines.” (Read the rest in InterAksyon.com, July 29, 2012)
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