Originally Posted by
tannebil
The routing I have on hold is SEA-LAX-ICN-MNL and I'll just buy a cheap onward ticket on PAL or Cebu Pacific. The connection in MNL is 3:30 so that should work OK. The drawbacks are having to fly to LAX and having to deal with the MNL airport (I hear bad things).
MNL can be a PITA but I don't think it's that bad except for the one time it took me 1 hour to get through immigration. That being said, 3.5 hours should be plenty of time to transfer to Terminal 2 (Philippine Airlines) or Terminal 3 (Cebu Pacific).