MANILA, Philippines - The government will give the Philippine Airlines (PAL) the leeway to resolve its dispute with pilots.

The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) said it will relax its mediation efforts following commitments from the management it will try to stem the exodus of pilots.

The government, however, gave PAL until Monday to resolve the dispute.

PAL committed, among others, that it will not transfer pilots manning the larger A320 fleet to sister company Air Philippines.

The Airline Pilots Association of the Philippines had said that the string of resignations is also caused by this new corporate system, which PAL is doing in order to compete with Cebu Pacific.

The latter is leading in the domestic air travel industry.

The government intervened this week in a bid to lure back the pilots, who had cited labor woes in PAL.

A total of 25 pilots and first officers quit in favor of higher paying jobs in other airlines. The move thus forced PAL to cancel about 22 domestic and regional flights starting Saturday.

The operations were supposedly back to normal starting on Tuesday.

Besides committing to continuous dialogues with pilots, PAL also committed to submit to the Civil Aeronautics Board its revised flight schedule for all routes.

These will be published in major dailies, in order to provide the necessary information to the riding public.