Philippine Airlines (PR, Manila Ninoy Aquino International) has applied for traffic rights allowing it to launch four times weekly service from Manila Ninoy Aquino International to either Moscow Domodedovo or Moscow Sheremetyevo from September of this year according to a report by Business World Online. At the same time, the national carrier has also applied for rights to operate several weekly services to Istanbul Atatürk and Kuwait indicating some of the destinations PAL plans to serve with the twenty A330-300s it has on order to expand long-haul services until it is allowed to operate to the European Union or to expand US operations. Philippine Airlines is still blacklisted by the European Union like all other airlines from the Philippines while the US Federal Aviation Administration has rated the country as Category 2 not allowing PAL to launch additional routes or to increase frequencies to the United States.