The Philippines wanted to renegotiate air traffic rights to rescue PAL from its financial crisis. They felt that intense competition from Taiwan's airlines was leaving PAL with too many empty seats on the Taipei-Manila route.
以菲國的立場來看，關於航權的談判，是菲國政府為了挽救陷於財政危機的菲航，而將菲航在台北馬尼拉航線中載客率不足的狀況歸因於我國航空公司的激烈競爭。