NEW PAL JET. Philippine Airlines’ brand new Boeing 777-300ER aircraft arrives in Manila from the US plane maker’s plant in Seattle, Washington. The third B777 in PAL’s wide body fleet, the new plane will immediately go into service across the Pacific and Australia, its first assignment.

Photo shows Capt. Alejandro Campos (left), PAL VP for flight operations, and Ismael Augusto Gozon, PAL SVP for operations, shaking hands with Gary Youngblood (right), field service manager of Boeing Company during simple blessing rites at the new A380 hangar of Lufthansa Technik Philippines in Pasay City.