Flights from Cebu (CEB) to Seattle (SEA) — PHP Fares & Schedules

Flights Cebu (CEB) → Seattle (SEA)

2 one-way departures a week are catalogued on CEB–SEA, flown by Philippine Airlines, with a scheduled block of 13.0 hours. 2 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 1 carrier on file. 3 out of 10 is the demand score this site assigns the corridor editorially.

This corridor carries a demand score of 3/10 in our route file and is flagged as a leisure, VFR and business corridor. PAL via direct service planned. Read that number for what it is: an editorial 1-10 ranking of estimated Filipino-language search interest, built for prioritising which pages we research first. It is not a passenger count, not a load factor, and not a quality signal about the airlines involved. High-scoring corridors are the ones where seats on the cheapest fare classes disappear first and where the gap between an early booking and a two-week-out booking is widest; low-scoring corridors tend to hold their price longer but give you fewer departures to choose from if a plan slips.

Cebu to Seattle is a long-haul transpacific route connecting the Visayas hub with the US Pacific Northwest, with around 2 flights a week. The route carries balikbayan travellers visiting family, business travellers and tourists. Block time is about thirteen hours, a genuine long-haul sector.

Airlines on this route

1 carrier — Philippine Airlines — is catalogued nonstop on CEB–SEA, filing about 2 one-way departures a week. All carry 23 kg economy checked baggage. 3 out of 10 is the demand score this site assigns the corridor editorially.

A single nonstop operator changes the arithmetic in two directions. On price, there is no competitive floor on the nonstop: the cheapest seats open and close on Philippine Airlines’ own inventory cycle, so the usual advice to wait for a fare war does not apply — connecting itineraries on other carriers are the only real competition, and they cost you hours. On disruption, a cancellation has nowhere obvious to go. With one operator there is no same-day sister flight unless the frequency itself is high, and rebooking onto a competitor requires an interline or alliance link. If your dates are fixed — a reporting date, a contract start, a family event — the risk-managed choice on this pair is an earlier departure with a day of slack behind it, not the cheapest one closest to the deadline.

Philippine Airlines operates Cebu to Seattle, flying a full-service widebody with a checked baggage allowance and meals included. The direct service spares Visayas travellers a connection on a long transpacific journey often flown by family groups.

PHP fares

0 live fare readings are cached for CEB–SEA right now, so the figures below describe how pricing behaves on the corridor rather than a current quote; the scheduled block is 13.0 hours. 2 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 1 carrier on file.

Seattle as an arrival point

4 facts identify the arrival airport on this pair: SEA is Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA/KSEA); the local currency is USD; region North America; OFW relevance rated low.

On arrival you are landing at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, ICAO KSEA, serving Seattle, United States. PAL increased to 5x weekly Nov 2025. Across the whole Philippine market, Philippine Airlines and Delta Air Lines are the carriers our destination file records as serving Seattle from home — a wider set than the ones flying this particular pair, which is why a Manila routing sometimes opens options Cebu does not have. One habit worth forming on any arrival: read the airport, not the city name. Big metro areas usually have several airports, and the cheapest fare tends to land at the most distant one — where the transfer into town can cost more than the fare saved. Check which airport your fare actually lands at before you compare two prices, and if you are connecting onward from a different airport in the same city, treat that as a separate journey with its own buffer — no airline protects a connection that involves a taxi.

Fares are quoted in PHP and, with two flights a week, respond quickly to demand. Prices climb steeply around the December holidays and the summer, when balikbayan travel peaks — for those dates, booking three to five months ahead is sensible. For quieter weeks, eight to twelve weeks of lead time usually secures a workable economy fare.

About Seattle

1 arrival airport serves this route: Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), at Seattle, United States. Local currency is USD. 2 one-way departures a week are catalogued on the pair across 1 carrier on file. 3 out of 10 is the demand score this site assigns the corridor editorially.

Entry rules for a Philippine passport in United States

1 rule governs entry here for a Philippine passport: B1/B2 visitor visa required, at $185 USD non-refundable, for a maximum stay of decided at port of entry, typically 6 months. Verified 2026-05-18.

• United States — B1/B2 visitor visa required; fee $185 USD non-refundable; max stay Decided at port of entry, typically 6 months. In-person interview required at US Embassy Manila. Appointment wait times currently 60–180 days. ESTA does NOT apply to Philippine passports. Official source

Two things this table does not cover, and they are the ones that strand people. A visa grants permission to apply for entry — the officer at the border still decides, and a return or onward ticket plus proof of funds is what that decision usually turns on. And a visa for your destination says nothing about the countries you transit: several major hubs require their own transit visa or a same-terminal, same-ticket connection to be exempt, and the exemption is lost the moment you have to collect a bag and check in again. Visa rules change frequently. Use this as a starting reference only; verify with the destination’s embassy or official immigration portal before booking. For OFW employment visas, follow the DMW deployment process — that is separate from tourist/visit visas.

Seattle is the largest city in the US state of Washington, set between the ocean and the mountains, known for its technology industry and its coffee culture. It has an established Filipino community. For travellers from Cebu it is most often a family-visit destination, with the direct service a notable convenience on a long route.

Delays and cancellations: what actually applies on CEB–SEA

1 federal rulebook reaches CEB–SEA: the US Department of Transportation’s consumer rules. They mandate a prompt refund for a cancelled or significantly changed flight you decline, and payment for involuntary denied boarding — but no cash compensation for a delay. Philippine departures are separately covered by the Air Passenger Bill of Rights.

United States rules are the ones most often misread, so state the shape plainly: the US Department of Transportation regulates refunds, not delay compensation. A cancelled or significantly changed flight you decline entitles you to a prompt refund of the unused portion, and being bumped from an oversold flight against your will carries a set denied-boarding payment. There is no US equivalent of a fixed cash payment for a late arrival — an EU261-style amount does not exist on a US corridor in either direction, whichever airline you fly. Reference: US DOT — Aviation Consumer Protection.

On the Manila end, a flight departing a Philippine airport is covered by the Air Passenger Bill of Rights administered by the Civil Aeronautics Board, which obliges the carrier to offer rebooking or a refund and to provide amenities as a delay lengthens. It is a service and refund standard rather than a compensation tariff, so the outcome is rebooking, a refund and amenities rather than a set payment.

Carriers catalogued nonstop on CEB–SEA

1 carrier — Philippine Airlines — are catalogued nonstop on CEB–SEA, filing about 2 one-way departures a week between them. 3 out of 10 is the demand score this site assigns the corridor editorially.

What each operator brings to this pair, from our carrier file:

• Philippine Airlines (PR) — alliance none (ex-oneworld observer); hubs MNL/CEB; 23 kg economy checked; +10 kg OFW uplift; PH brand strength 10/10.

Where the CEB–SEA figures on this page come from

2 data sources sit behind this page: a route record and 1 carrier record. Route records were compiled 2026-05-09; visa rules were verified 2026-05-18 and are next due for review 2026-08-18.

Being specific about provenance is the only way a page like this earns trust, so: every figure above is read from a file in this project rather than from an airline’s marketing page. Frequencies are schedule estimates compiled from public timetable snapshots — Frequencies are estimates from public schedule data; flight hours are scheduled block times. Indirect-only corridors flagged where no nonstop exists. Flight hours are scheduled block times, gate to gate, not time in the air. Fares are cache floors: the lowest one-way the Travelpayouts feed returned for a pair at the moment it was polled, for one date and one fare class, excluding checked baggage where the carrier sells it separately. Baggage allowances and OFW uplifts come from the carrier programme records in this project and are the figure to confirm at booking, because an airline can change a programme without changing a timetable. Where a number is missing we leave it out rather than estimate it.

FAQ

6 questions below draw only on the route, carrier and fare data this project keeps for CEB–SEA. Anything that is a cached floor rather than a bookable price says so, and rules that fail in specific situations are answered with those situations named.

Checked baggage and the OFW uplift on CEB–SEA

10 kg is the largest OFW uplift on this route, carried by Philippine Airlines on top of a 23 kg economy base — 33 kg in total for a qualifying passenger.

Checked allowance on this pair, from our carrier file:

• Philippine Airlines — 23 kg economy base, +10 kg under Overseas Filipino Bayani Program (extra baggage 10kg + handling) = 33 kg for a qualifying worker.

The uplift is the part people get wrong, so here is where it does not reach. It travels with the passenger’s status rather than with the fare, and it is unlocked at check-in by documents — an OEC or OFW Pass and, usually, the employment contract. Book a bags-free base fare on a low-cost carrier and there is no base allowance for the uplift to sit on top of. Book the domestic feeder as a separate ticket and the uplift does not follow the bag onto it. Fly a segment operated by a partner airline under a codeshare and the operating carrier’s own rules apply, not the one whose code is on your ticket. And the allowance is per passenger, not per booking — you cannot pool it across a family unless the airline’s own pooling rule says so. Verify the number at booking; excess bought at the airport is priced per kilo and is the most expensive kilo you will ever buy.

Does the OFW baggage uplift apply to every fare on CEB–SEA? No. The largest uplift on this route is 10 kg with Philippine Airlines, granted at check-in against an OEC or OFW Pass. It does not apply to a bags-free base fare, to a separately ticketed domestic feeder, or to a codeshare segment operated by a partner under its own rules, and it is per passenger rather than per booking.

Can I claim delay compensation on CEB–SEA? Not for a delay. US DOT rules give you a prompt refund when a flight is cancelled or significantly changed and you decline the alternative, plus a set payment for involuntary denied boarding, but the United States has no fixed cash scale for a late arrival. Philippine departures are separately covered by the Civil Aeronautics Board’s Air Passenger Bill of Rights.

Which airlines fly from Cebu to Seattle? Philippine Airlines flies Cebu to Seattle, with around 2 departures a week.

How long is the flight from Cebu to Seattle? Nonstop block time is about 13.0 hours.

When are Cebu to Seattle fares cheapest? Fares on CEB-SEA are quoted in PHP and move with demand. They climb around the December holidays and Holy Week. Booking four to eight weeks ahead usually secures a reasonable economy fare.

Are there nonstop flights from Cebu to Seattle? Yes — Cebu to Seattle is flown nonstop. Booking early still helps, as seats on the cheapest fare classes sell first.

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