7,641 islands.
Most travelers see five.
Find the route, see the country.
See more. Spread the fare. Save when you can.
Only around forty islands have scheduled flights — two thousand are inhabited and reachable. NowNa threads buses, ferries and small hops into routes the airlines won’t show you: more of the country in a single trip, your spend landing in the towns along the way — and often a fraction of the airfare.
Skip the spike. Fly through Davao.
A few island airports have one carrier — and price like it.
Where a single airline owns a small island strip — El Nido’s Lio, Camiguin, Catanduanes — the fare is set by what a time-pressed traveler will pay, not by cost. And on popular routes the “cheap” direct flight spikes on the dates people actually travel: we have logged Manila→Siargao round-trips at ₱27,400. NowNa routes around both — through a competitive hub and a short hop — for a web-verified ₱4,000–₱9,500.
Most of that demand is domestic— and in a year of high prices and a weak peso, saving ₱10,000 on a trip isn’t nice. It’s decisive.
And the money you save doesn’t vanish into an airline — it spreads to the towns you pass through. Where your spend goes →
What’s happening in June.
Routes in the launch wave.
Camiguin
The canonical NowNa case. No commercial direct exists. Tour bundles fill the gap and overcharge.
El Nido
The same Lio monopoly, priced from Cebu — and the same way around it, through Puerto Princesa.
El Nido
El Nido's tiny airstrip has exactly one airline. Fly into Puerto Princesa instead — and take all of Palawan home.
Camiguin
Camiguin is across a narrow strait. To fly there you'd backtrack 200km out to Cebu and in again. Locals just take the ferry.
Siquijor
Three ferries away from the mainland and the rates have not changed since 2018.
Sagada
There is no flight. There has never been one. The bus is the answer the duopoly cannot price.
Bohol
There's no nonstop flight between two islands a two-hour ferry apart — so booking a 'flight' connects through Manila for ₱7,500. The fast craft is ₱1,600.
Dumaguete
The Ceres bus drives straight onto the barge across the strait. One ₱372 ticket, no flight — and the gateway to Apo Island and Siquijor.
Baler
The surf weekend La Union does not want you to find.
Siargao
Same beach. But when the direct flight spikes to ₱27,000, you fly through Davao instead — and see it.
Marinduque
The overnight-ferry classic almost no one in Manila has done.
Catanduanes
Puraran is the second-best break in the Philippines. The duopoly bills it like it is the first.
Boracay
Boracay's own airstrip is a tiny 950-metre strip. When it spikes to ₱14,000, fly into Kalibo instead and ride in by land.
Coron
Fly direct to Coron, or thread the whole of Palawan for about the same money. Same price — three times the country.
Loops,
not back-and-forth.
Most travelers plan a trip as a flight out and the same flight back. NowNa opens up multi-leg circuits that fly into one regional airport and out of another, with overland connections between.
- · Skips the most expensive return leg.
- · Adds two or three destinations at marginal cost.
- · Spreads tourism revenue across more towns.
- · Photographs better.
The Mindanao loop
Manila → Davao → Surigao → Siargao → Cebu → Manila. One trip, four cities, no backtracking.
The Palawan loop
Manila → Puerto Princesa → El Nido → Coron → Manila. Three Palawan destinations on one ticket.
The Visayan loop
Manila → Cebu → Bohol → Siquijor → Dumaguete → Manila. Four islands. One ferry network.
Filipino-built.
Editorial-led.
Designed to help connect
people and our islands.
Every route is covered with the depth a Manila publication would write — the specific food spots, the right ferry at the right hour, what each island is really known for. Not the thin copy an OTA contractor churns out.
And the cheaper route does something the direct flight can’t: your spend disperses — to drivers, ferry crews, carinderias and weavers — instead of two airlines. Cheaper for you, decisive for the towns.
We started with the most mispriced routes. The goal is all 7,641 islands — the whole country, made navigable and affordable for the people who actually live here.
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