Originally Posted by
atflyer
AMS-MNL was once really direct and before COVID with a stop in Taipeh, it never went via HKG afaik. With COVID fancy new schedules with unusual stops have been designed, and some destinations dropped. Could well be MNL is off the menu right now.
Apologies for not being clearer. The MNL flight used to be via TPE, but switched recently to BKK (since TPE is off limits). From experience there was a crew change at the interim stop (so one crew would do AMS-TPE and another TPE-MNL-TPE and then another TPE-AMS), so I would expect this to also be the case in BKK. The HKG service which used to be direct is now having a stoppover in BKK for crew changes like the MNL service, given high incidences of crew being sent to Penny Bay for quarantine during the turnaround in HKG.
I have since seen availability from MNL-BKK-AMS in May but it remains to be seen how it pans out since the Netherlands is on the PHL red list given it's OMICRON position.