Cebu Pacific Check-in Guidelines



Gone are the days when you can hop out the taxi and run through the airport to the boarding gate just in the nick of time to board a plane. These days, there are several screening process that make long lines at security check-in points in the airports. To avoid delays or not being able to board a plane, and as a courtesy for others waiting for check-in process, know and follow the following check-in guidelines:


1. Guest must bring a valid photo-ID on the day of travel. Guest need to present this to airport security when entering the airport terminal and upon check-in. The name in the photo-ID should match the guest's name that was entered upon booking. If guest fails to present a valid photo-ID, he/she may be refused check-in. For senior citizens and persons with disabilities, OSCA ID and PWD IDs need to be presented at check-in.


2. Check-in counters open 2 hours before scheduled time of flight departure and strictly close 45 minutes before flight departure for domestic flights. For international flights using A319 / A320 and A330 aircraft departing the Philippines, check-in counters open 3 hours and close 45 minutes before flight departure. For flights departing Dubai, check-in counters open 3 hours and close 1 hour before flight departure. A confirmed booking shall be cancelled and released to wait-listed persons if the guest failed to check-in within the prescribed time.


3. Guests must be at the boarding gate at least 30 minutes before flight departure as the airline closes the gate 15 minutes before flight departure for all flights using ATR/ A319 and A320 aircraft. For flights using A330 aircraft departing the Philippines, boarding commences 45 minutes and gate closes 15 minutes before flight departure. For flights departing Dubai, boarding commences 45 minutes and gate closes 20 minutes before flight departure. Guests not at the boarding gate at the prescribed time will not be allowed to board the aircraft.


4. Guests are responsible in ensuring compliance with the immigration, custom or other legal requirements of the countries that guests have flown from, or will fly into or over. Guest should ensure that he/she possesses a valid passport with at least six (6) months validity from the date of the guest departure and the applicable valid visas. Guest must also have a printed copy of return or onward ticket and must be able to satisfactorily prove upon request sufficient means of financial support during the guest's stay in the country of destination.


5. Cebu Pacific is strictly a point-to-point carrier and shall not be responsible for any connecting flight arrangement which guest may choose to make. Guests are advised to plan any connecting flights accordingly.


6. For web and Call Center transactions, all guests (other than those exempted from paying travel tax), departing from the Philippines to international sectors shall pay the Philippine travel tax amounting to PhP1,620.00 at the respective airport in the Philippines prior to departure.


7. Guests are strongly advised not to bring valuable and fragile items as checked baggage. If guests check them in, the airline shall not be responsible for the damage to those items and that guests agree that the airline will carry them at guest's own risk.


8. Check-in bag must not exceed 32kg per piece in accordance with the occupational safety rules to avoid injury to porters. To promote swift check-in, kindly ensure that your check-in bag is well within the 32kg weight limit. Otherwise, guests will be requested to lessen the contents from the bag weighing more than 32kg and transfer the contents to another check-in or carry-on bag. Any bag exceeding 32kg will not be accepted as check-in baggage.