Many Philippines airports are not much more than jungle airstrips such as my local airport that has a runway length of 1,270m, visual operations only, no airfield lighting, often 'still air' conditions with high temperatures and Cebu Pacific operate ATR72's in and out and carrying, besides up to 72 passengers with lots of baggage and surfboards etc, round trip fuel and Jensen Button would be proud of the flying start they get from the runway threshold.
The thought of low houred pilots operating airliners thru such airstrips ... well just the thought of it is quite frightening!