A big riding public flies Cebu Pacific every day, and John Gokongwei, who is listed on the Forbes magazine annual roster of Filipino dollar billionaires, and his family make a lot of money on them. However, the service Cebu Pacific renders is not worth half the money and trust the public gives them. People put up with the rotten service simply because they have no choice, but the State has a duty to intervene. It must now intervene. Better yet, the public should stop flying Cebu Pacific.

Last week, I flew Cebu Pacific to Zamboanga City for a meeting. With me was a senior colleague on the National Transformation Council. This was a few days after Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte announced he was dropping out of the 2016 presidential race, and on the day LP presidential wannabe Mar Roxas tried to rekindle the nation’s memory of the infamous “siege of Zamboanga” one year ago when he and President B. S. Aquino 3rd led Western Mindanao’s entire armed contingent to wipe out a couple of hundred poorly armed Moro National Liberation Front fighters, burn down 10,000 civilian homes and displace over 100,000 residents.

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