Thank you very much. Yes I did buy BR eventually as I needed the points and also hate MNL airport as my final destination this time is BKK. TPE is so easy to connect and there is about three hours between the connecting flights and if I miss that there is another one to BKK in about an hour later. Yes I also always try to book the last row and the aisle seat on BR in PE.
I like the bidding thing on PR. I also noticed that half the aircraft from YYZ to TPE is full of filipinos so I was guessing that the PR flight would be much more of them and always full. 500 or even 600 is a good price to fly on business class from the PE.