New airline readies Clark-Macau service
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Business 11-27-08

MANILA, Philippines--Spirit of Manila, a new, Filipino-owned airline, will start flying from the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in the Clark Special Economic Zone, north of Manila, to Macau next month, an airline official said.
In a statement, the airline said it received permission to operate from the Civil Aeronautics Board on Nov. 25.
Spirit of Manila was established last January to provide budget international flights, particularly for travellers from the northern and central Luzon regions, home of families of about 2.1 million overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) whose foreign exchange remittances amount to $5.6 billion a year—about 40 percent of the total $14 billion sent home by OFWs annually-.Riza T. Olchondra