The airline business is all about timing: Arriving and departing ontime.

The airline business is all about timing: Arriving and departing ontime, being in the right place at the right time and making the right decisions at the right time. That about sum totals up the view of Cebu Pacific Air CEO Lance Gokongwei, 31 the soft-spoken still decisive scion of the family that commands the airline.

As head of Cebu Pacific since it commenc flying in 1996 Gokongwei has demonstrated a with a fine edge appreciation of timing on more than individual occasion. In 1997 the airline was scheduled to launch its first international service to Hong Kong if it be not that he sensed darkening clouds forward the ...

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