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No settlement in Soco’s complaint vs airline
NO agreement was reached in yesterday’s mediation between budget carrier Cebu Pacific and Cebu businessman Glenn Anthony Soco, who sued the airline after getting bumped off a flight in April last year. “No agreement was reached on the table,” said Soco’s lawyer Gonzalo Malig-on Jr. after an hour-long mediation facilitated by Jose Ramiro Carpio Jr. […]
Transport groups seek minimum fare hike
August 31, 2012
A transport group is proposing a P1.50 jeepney fare hike as the price of diesel surpassed P46 per liter. Ryan Benjamin Yu, head of the Cebu Integrated Transport Service Cooperative (Citrasco) and chairman of the 1-United Transport Kaolisyon (1-UTAK) in Central Visayas, said the increase in minimum jeepney fare is just fair as the series […]
Cebu operators, drivers insist on P9 PUJ fare
April 12, 2012
Cebu transport groups insisted that jeepney fares start at P9 to cope with the rising cost of fuel and vehicle maintenance. The Cebu Integrated Transport Services Cooperative stood by its petition for a P1.50 fare rate increase in a public hearing held yesterday at the Cebu Normal University. A P.50 provisional increase was earlier […]
Cebu buses to charge P8.50 fare rate today
March 27, 2012
CAPITOL employee Dionese Canonigo pays P40 as daily bus fare to go to work from his home in Toledo City, southwest Cebu, 50 kilometers away. With the new fare agreement signed by bus operators and the Capitol officials yesterday, his bus trip will cost him P50. He isn’t complaining loudly though. Bus operators have been […]
Cebu bus owners set to charge P8 fare rate
March 22, 2012
For years, Cebu bus operators have been charging less than the official fare because tight competition forced rates to stay low. Not anymore. Starting next week, the fare will go up to P8 instead of the current P6 for the first five kilometers. An additional P1.40 for every succeeding kilometer will be collected instead of […]
PUJ fare hike stays as long as diesel is over P45/liter
March 21, 2012
It’s a temporary increase but jeepney operators are happy to collect a 50 centavo increase in fare rates starting today. Commuters in Cebu and the region must pay P8 instead of P7.50 minimum fare for a jeepney ride. The provisional increase was approved yesterday by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) in Manila […]
Ready for P9 PUJ fare? Cebu hearing to be set
March 16, 2012
A public hearing will be held in Cebu to discuss the fare increase petition for a P9 minimum jeepney fare filed by a transport group yesterday. Regional Director Ahmed Cuizon of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board in Central Visayas (LTFRB-7) said he would call for a public hearing and invite different stakeholders to […]
November 16, 2012
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