Avian Journal
Route guides, empty-leg know-how, and the practical side of chartering — written for travellers, not pilots.
8 min read
A seven-day loop through every airport in Palawan, four flights of under an hour each, with the live whole-aircraft price on every leg and a cheaper version that skips the Sulu Sea.
7 min read
Every price card names an aircraft, a seat limit and a luggage allowance. What those mean for a family, a dive group or a surfer with a board, and why the same route can carry two prices.
7 min read
Every priced private-flight leg out of Mactan-Cebu in one table, with block times, live whole-aircraft prices and an honest note on what the airlines fly instead. Five of the eleven have no airline at all.
7 min read
No airline links the surf island and Panglao; every scheduled routing costs most of a day via Cebu or Manila. A light aircraft flies it in about 80 minutes, and the Cebu leg covers surf season sell-outs.
6 min read
Bantayan has an airstrip no airline uses and a ferry queue that doubles at Holy Week. The private flight from Mactan is the cheapest leg on this site, and it turns a two-day weekend into three.
7 min read
Palawan's oldest town has a Spanish fort, a kitesurfing wind and no airline. The ships call a few times a week on an overnight crossing; a light aircraft reaches it from four Palawan airports in under an hour.
7 min read
No road, ship or airline joins Palawan's capital to Coron directly. The surface route is two days via El Nido, the airline route is six to eight hours through Manila, and a Cessna flies it in 75 minutes.
7 min read
Boracay, Iloilo, Cebu and Bohol sit one to two hours east of El Nido and Coron by light aircraft, and most of a day away via Manila. Every crossing compared, with the four destination guides.
7 min read
No ferry and, most of the year, no direct flight: how to get from El Nido or Coron to Boracay via Manila, on the seasonal Caticlan turboprop, or on an hour-long private flight.
7 min read
Cebu has the only thin scheduled link from Palawan to the Visayas. When to take CebGo, when you are really booking the Manila loop, and when a two-hour private flight to Mactan earns its price.
7 min read
No airline flies Palawan to Bohol. The Manila loop, the Cebu-and-ferry route, and the two-hour private flight that lands on Panglao Island itself, 15 minutes from Alona Beach.
7 min read
Iloilo is the Visayan city nearest Palawan and the one with no flight from it. The Manila routing, the weekly ship via Cuyo, and the 90-minute private flight, compared.
7 min read
The El Nido–Coron crossing by fast ferry, by CebGo's short turboprop hop, or by a 30-minute private aircraft over the Linapacan strait, compared.
8 min read
Every way from Puerto Princesa to El Nido compared: shared van, private van, bus, the airline situation, and the 50-minute private flight.
7 min read
A Beaver seaplane or a wheeled Cessna: landing sites, capacity, luggage, weather and price, compared honestly.
8 min read
Real whole-aircraft prices for every Palawan charter leg in pesos and dollars, what changes them, and when an empty leg beats them.
6 min read
San Vicente Airport sits minutes from Long Beach — 14 kilometres of sand and one of the world's few beach-landing dropzones. Fly in, skip the van.
7 min read
Cebu, Panglao, Dumaguete, Siquijor and Camiguin sit within short flights of each other, yet connecting them by ferry eats whole days. How a light aircraft turns the Visayas into one itinerary.
6 min read
Seven volcanoes, a sunken cemetery, and some of the thinnest airline service of any famous Philippine island. A private charter puts Camiguin 45 minutes from Cebu instead of a full day away.
5 min read
One thin Cebu link aside, Siquijor still funnels visitors through Dumaguete and the ferry pier — its airstrip is mostly a charter story.
6 min read
When a charter aircraft repositions for its next job, its seats would otherwise fly empty — so operators sell them at steep discounts. How empty legs work, what the catch is, and how to actually catch one.
6 min read
The short hop between El Nido and Coron crosses Bacuit Bay's karst towers, the reefs of the Linapacan strait and the lagoons of the Calamianes — a sightseeing flight disguised as a transfer.
7 min read
Palawan looks compact on a map, but moving between Puerto Princesa, El Nido and Coron means half-day van rides and weather-dependent ferries. Here is the case for flying over all of it.
