@Zone 220 - if you're updated with CIA gossip (which you are), you'd know that one of the Alphas were already flown for about 8 hours last friday and for some reason, everyone here will be leaving for Manila this friday to have an Alpha 120/160 rating placed on our Student Pilot's Licenses. perhaps it means the ATO has already done its job as far as our planes' paperwork is concerned.
@RWH - there's a sense of security in knowing that having an incapacitated captain rarely happens in medium range flights... i don't know if Cebu Pacific will have entry-level second officers (like most of us here at Clark will be) perform take off and landing procedures ala SIA Cadets, but the performance of MPL holders in bad weather is something that's yet to be seen given the amount of time we'll have on light aircraft, simulators, and takeoff/landing procedures on a real A320 put together.
Cheers!