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Flew with Cathay Pacific

Submitted by peter on Sat, 03/14/2009 - 05:59.

We ended up flying from Hong Kong to Manila with Cathay.  If your baggage is already checked, and you have a continuing flight with Cathay (even if it is on a different ticket) the airline will not reweigh your luggage - you don't go through customs or receive your luggage - their computer just picks up your luggage for you and puts it on your Cathay flight.  Cathay required me (and my baby) to have round-trip tickets - Cebu Pacific I believe requires the same thing.

But just FYI - if you are married to a Filipina and flying into the country with her, then you generally do not need the return flight at the immigration checkpoint.  You need to ask the immigration officer for the Balikbayan stamp, which gives you a 1-year stay for free (no need to go to the immigration office -- this saves you almost 500 USD in immigration fees!).  Our baby also got the stamp, another 500 USD saved because she doesn't have a Philippines passport yet.

We later took the Philippines Airlines flight from Manila to Dumaguete.  We bought the ticket online and it was cheaper than the fare quoted from a Manila travel agent.  We did have to pay a small amount of baggage charge - I think it was 500 pesos, even though we were quite overweight.

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