Philippine Airlines now flies non-stop from Manila to New York

The colourful and ever busy Times Square in New York City. You can catch a 16-hour non-stop flight to the Big Apple from Manila now.

New York is one of the cities in the world that goes with a myriad of names: The Big Apple, The City That Never Sleeps, The Empire City. New York has grown from a humble Dutch fur trading post at the southern tip of Manhattan established in 1624.

Since then, in its colourful and at times violent history, the city has become the preeminent harbour for the Atlantic Ocean and the port of entry for most immigrants who continued to arrive in the United States after the Great Depression and WWII.