VICKEI Ning Kong Yue, is Cathay Pacific’s young, new and dynamic Cebu port manager. She remains unfazed by the global economic downturn.
This is the first time since 2003 that Cathay has experienced a setback which, she explains, is due to fuel costs, not to passenger lack.
The company, she shares, is addressing this problem by ordering more fuel efficient aircraft, the 777 EK from Boeing.
Vickie is a bachelor of Applied Science graduate of the University of British Columbia. She joined Cathay in 2002 as management trainee before she became information management officer.
A year later, she was in Manila as assistant to the country manager moved back to Hong Kong in 2004 as product officer, then as assistant manager to Cargo Planning and Customer Relations Manager-Development and Strategy, before her assignment to Cebu.
She’s happy to be back in Cebu, which she has visited before, and notes the many changes in the city.
In her perch up on the 12th floor of the Ayala Life FGU Center, she overlooks the mall, a place she has become very familiar with.
Living alone, she says she should go out more, meet more people. But she has been busy with work, and with learning how to golf. She hopes to learn ballroom dancing and to take up again, scuba diving.
She received her scuba diving license in Anilao, but has not dived for some time so she knows she must take a refresher course before she can dive in Cebu.
Being in the airline business, she loves to travel and finds the Philippines a fun place to visit. She hopes to visit Palawan and Iloilo.
She has already been to Tagaytay where she found her favorite buko pie; and Boracay where she went island-hopping and discovered the “perfect pizza.”
Her favorite Filipino dish is sizzling sisig, but she has yet to find the perfect place for it in Cebu.
No doubt she’ll find it soon and discover many other dishes to like!
