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Fails WP:NCORP. The company is common in the bus industry in the Philippines, but that does not necessarily make it notable enough to warrant a standalone article. The majority of the article's content is unsourced, and the references used are unreliable, with some pointing to tourism websites that may fall under WP:AFFILIATE or WP:UGC. A quick internet search reveals only passing mentions of "Philtranco" in news outlets, mostly in the context of bus accidents involving the company. This is insufficient to establish notability as per WP:INHERITORG and WP:CORPTRIV. AstrooKai (Talk) 06:10, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Travel and tourism, Transportation, and Philippines. AstrooKai (Talk) 06:10, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 06:43, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

• Delete per nom - Jjpachano (talk) 08:36, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
• Redirect to List of bus companies of the Philippines per WP:ATD --Lenticel ^(talk) 00:06, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
• Update to Keep per Cunard's findings --Lenticel ^(talk) 00:17, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

• Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.

  1. {{cite journal |last=Imperial |first=Leo Paulo I. |date=December 2021 |title=The Pioneering Alatco bus company: Mobility in Early-Twentieth-Century Bicol |journal=Philippine Studies |volume=69 |number=4 |doi=10.1353/phs.2021.0029 }}

     The article discusses Albert Louis Ammen Transportation Company (Alatco), which was the previous name of Philtranco. The article notes: "Part of the Alatco’s postwar recovery was the transition of the company’s management from American to Filipino control. Possessing the largest individual holding of the corporation’s stock, the Ammen Estate interests, together with other American interests, exercised control over the company. [End Page 621] In 1949, after a lengthy negotiation, the Tuasons of Manila acquired the majority of the company’s holdings. The transaction included the Tuasons’ acquisition of 60 percent of the Alatco’s paid-up capital, together with 80 percent of the capital stock of Bicol Trading Inc., a company of truck and automobile dealers in the Bicol Region (ACCJ 1949, 392). This decisive event marked the Filipinization of the Alatco and was indicative of the subsequent changes whereby Filipino capital gradually absorbed American enterprises. The company formally changed its name to Philtranco Service Enterprises, Inc. in 1984 (Philtranco Transport Heritage Museum 1989)."

     The abstract notes: "Founded on 6 July 1914, the Albert Louis Ammen Transportation Company (Alatco) was the first bus company in the Philippines and the pioneer in Bicol’s motorized public transport system. Improved road conditions in Bicol in the early twentieth century were advantageous for the rapid development of motorized inland transportation. It was in this context that enterprising American serviceman Albert Louis Ammen realized the necessity of a reliable public transport business to assist the movement of people and goods. This article focuses on the Alatco’s evolution and emphasizes how its operation transformed various aspects of life in the Bicol Region."

  2. {{cite news |last=Foz |first=Arlene Dabu |date=2004-07-06 |title=Philtranco marks 90 years in travel, transport trade |url=https://tuklas.up.edu.ph/Record/IPN-00000119167 |url-access=subscription |newspaper=Manila Bulletin |page=B5 |id={{Factiva|MABULL0020040705e0760007h}} |accessdate=2024-12-29 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20241229122245/https://tuklas.up.edu.ph/Record/IPN-00000119167 |archivedate=2024-12-29 }}

     The article notes: "Founded by former Amercian serviceman Albert Louis Ammen and Max Blouse, Philtranco, previously known as A.L. Ammen Transportation Company (ALATCO), started in Bicol on July 1, 1914. Philtranco has changed several hands since then and 40 years after its founding, ALATCO’s control shifted to the Tuason family who holds shares of the Eastern Tayabas Bus Company (ETB), a merging of three small bus companies working in Quezon’s Tayabas area. Seventeen years later, the First Manila Management Corp. (FMMC), via its subsidiary Central Auto Bus Corp. (CABCO) now known as Philtranco South Express Inc. (PSEI), bought the ALATCO and ETB from the Tuasons. Since 1984 to 1989, the bus company was known as PSEI. Between those years, PSEI’s senior executives negotiated for the transfer of ownership of the entire FMMC group to its managers, employees and pre-martial law owners. Thus, the group became the first Filipino corporation majority-owned, managed and operated by its own employees and managers. ... Philtranco has the biggest and most comprehensive bus maintenance bases in the country. They can be found in Daet, Naga, Iriga, Tabaco, Legaspi, Sorsogon, Matnog, Bulan, Catbalogan, San Isidro, Allen, Goa, Tacloban, Liloan, Davao City and Cagayan de Oro."

  3. {{cite news |last=Nguyễn |first=Uyên |date=2023-02-28 |title=Top 50 doanh nghiệp có lịch sử lâu đời tại Đông Nam Á (P.03) – Philtranco (Philippines): Hãng xe buýt với hơn 100 năm đưa đón các hành khách trên từng con đường |trans-title=Top 50 long-standing businesses in Southeast Asia (Part 3) – Philtranco (Philippines): Bus company with over 100 years of transporting passengers on every road |language=vi |url=https://kyluc.vn/tin-tuc/top-the-gioi/top-50-doanh-nghiep-co-lich-su-lau-doi-tai-dong-nam-a-p-03-philtranco-philippines-hang-xe-buyt-voi-hon-100-nam-dua-don-cac-hanh-khach-tren-tung-con-duong |website={{ill|Vietnam Record Assocation|vi|Hội Kỷ lục gia Việt Nam}} |accessdate=2024-12-29 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20241229124042/https://kyluc.vn/tin-tuc/top-the-gioi/top-50-doanh-nghiep-co-lich-su-lau-doi-tai-dong-nam-a-p-03-philtranco-philippines-hang-xe-buyt-voi-hon-100-nam-dua-don-cac-hanh-khach-tren-tung-con-duong |archivedate=2024-12-29 }}

     The article notes: "Philtranco được thành lập vào năm 1914 khi ông Albert Louis Ammen và ông Max Blouse tổ chức Công ty Vận tải AL Ammen (ALATCO), điều hành các chuyến xe buýt chở khách từ Iriga đến Naga. Năm 1958, quyền sở hữu được chuyển giao cho gia đình Tuason và cho Tập đoàn Mantrade vào năm 1971 ngay trước khi Thiết quân luật được áp dụng. Khi đó công ty cũng được đổi tên thành Pantranco South Express, Inc. (PSEI). Sau khoảng thời gian khủng hoảng và qua tay nhiều chủ nợ và tái thiết, tới đầu cuối những năm 1970 công ty bắt đầu kinh doanh ổn định lại. Vào năm 1979, công ty mở rộng phạm vi hoạt động sang khu vực phía đông Visayas và bắt đầu hoạt động phà tại eo biển San Bernardino ba năm sau đó. Tới năm 1984, công ty chính thức đổi tên thành Philtranco Service Enterprises, Inc."

     From Google Translate: "Philtranco was founded in 1914 when Mr. Albert Louis Ammen and Mr. Max Blouse organized the AL Ammen Transport Company (ALATCO), operating passenger buses from Iriga to Naga. In 1958, ownership was transferred to the Tuason family and to the Mantrade Corporation in 1971, just before Martial Law was imposed. The company was then renamed Pantranco South Express, Inc. (PSEI). After a period of crisis and various creditors and restructuring, the company began to stabilize in the early to late 1970s. In 1979, the company expanded its operations to the eastern Visayas and began ferry operations in the San Bernardino Strait three years later. In 1984, the company officially changed its name to Philtranco Service Enterprises, Inc."

  4. {{cite news |last=Gonzales |first=Iris Cecilia C. |date=2004-04-04 |title=Philtranco sets aside P4B for 5-year expansion plan |newspaper=BusinessWorld |page=1 |id={{Factiva|bswrld0020030404dz440006r}} }} {{ProQuest|233827395}}

     The article notes: "Philtranco Service Enterprises, Inc., one of the country's major transportation companies, has allotted P4 billion for a five-year expansion program involving the purchase of new buses and ferry boats and building new terminals. ... Philtranco has a total bus fleet of 349, including 164 air-conditioned buses. Its buses ply the Pasay/Cubao to Bicol, Visayas and Mindanao routes. For Bicol region alone, its market share is 71%, and 35% for ordinary buses. ... Philtranco was acquired from the Tuason family in 1958 by AL Ammen Transportation Co., which was founded by American servicemen Albert Louis Ammen and Max Bluse in 1914. The company was renamed Philtranco in 1971. In 1999, the Alvarez group took over Philtranco and Tritran."

  5. {{cite news |last=Ferriols |first=Des |date=2000-01-20 |title=Alvarez takes over Philtranco |url=https://www.philstar.com/business/2000/01/20/101387/alvarez-takes-over-philtranco |newspaper=The Philippine Star |accessdate=2024-12-29 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20241229123241/https://www.philstar.com/business/2000/01/20/101387/alvarez-takes-over-philtranco |archivedate=2024-12-29 }}

     The article notes: "Logging and automotive tycoon Jose "Pepito" Alvarez has acquired majority control of Philtranco Services Enterprises Inc. (PSEI), the only bus carrier in the country with a nationwide public transport franchise. ... PSEI's existing fleet service Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Naga, Iriga, Albay, Legazpi, Sorsorgon, Davao and Leyte. It also ferries passengers direct from its Pasay terminals to Davao City and Cagayan de Oro. PSEI has a total of nine terminals nationwide, three sub-terminals and 22 stations. Its expansion project is expected to generate a P435.935-million income in the first year from a P1.646-billion revenue."

  6. {{cite news |last=Abunda |first=Boy |date=2008-06-25 |title=A city after my own heart |url=https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2008/06/25/69372/city-after-my-own-heart |newspaper=The Philippine Star |accessdate=2024-12-29 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20241229124650/https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2008/06/25/69372/city-after-my-own-heart |archivedate=2024-12-29 }}

     The article notes: "The country’s oldest bus transportation Alatco later named Philtranco is also found in Iriga. Alatco was established by an American serviceman named A.L. Ammen. Memorabilia of the beginnings of the oldest transport in the country is housed at the Transportation Museum, inside an American plantation house type."

  7. {{cite news |last=Garcia |first=Cathy Rose A. |date=2003-08-06 |title=Philtranco eyes niche market |newspaper=BusinessWorld |page=7 |id={{Factiva|BSWRLD0020030806dz860001r}} }}

     The article notes: "Philtranco is the only bus line that operates a land transport service similar to that of airlines, as the 29-seater bus has a comfort room and stewardesses that serve Jollibee meals for lunch and dinner and some snack packs. Philtranco has been in the business for 89 years now and has consolidated other bus lines through the years, namely Tritran, Jam Transit, AMA Transport and Phil Touristers. It also has an affiliate ferry company as it uses the roll-on, roll-off, or RORO, mode of transport to connect Luzon with the Visayas and Mindanao. On April 12, Philtranco opened a RORO transport service from Batangas to Iloilo. In June, it launched a Manila-Caticlan-Iloilo route as it targets tourists going to Boracay. ... Philtranco has a total fleet of 370 buses composed of 20 Gold Service buses, 200 air-conditioned and 150 ordinary buses and transports to more than 30 endpoints and 200 destinations throughout the country."

  8. {{cite news |last=Ramos |first=Elaine Ruzul S. |date=2003-04-04 |title=Philtranco expansion plan to triple passenger capacity |newspaper=Manila Standard |id={{Factiva|mstd000020030404dz440007k}} }}

     The article notes: "Philtranco Service Enterprises Inc. has earmarked P4 billion for a five-year expansion program that would cover the acquisition of new buses, ferry boats, and construction of new terminals in various points of the country. ... Philtranco has a total bus fleet of 349, including 164 airconditioned buses. Its buses ply the Pasay/Cubao (Manila) to Bicol, Visayas and Mindanao. ... Philtranco, formerly AL Ammen Transportation Co. (Alatco), was founded by former American servicemen AL Ammem and Max Blouse in 1914. It was acquired by the Tuason family in 1958 and was renamed Philtranco in 1971 when the Tuason family decided to merge Alatco and the Eastern Tayabas Bus Co. Philtranco was then taken over by the owners of Victory Liner, Five Star Bus Co., and JAC Liner Inc. in 1997. Two years later, the Alvarez group, through Penta Pacific Realty Corp., took over Philtranco and Tritran."

  9. {{cite news |date=2005-08-12 |title=Philtranco offers new services after 91 years |newspaper=BusinessWorld |id={{Factiva|BSWRLD0020050812e18c0001r}} }}

     The article notes: "Philtranco recently celebrated 91 years of service to the nation. The pioneer bus company travels to all parts of the country through the Strong Republic Nautical Highway and even ferries people to departure destinations such as the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in Clark, Pampanga. Established in 1914 catering mainly to Northern Luzon, Philtranco (formerly Pantranco, or Pantranco North Express, Inc.) has since grown into a competitive transportation provider. It offers Luzviminda, a bus-ferry operation connecting Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao; Biyaheng Pinoy, a passenger service program to promote seamless, worry-free travel; Philtranco Privilege Plus, offering year-round discounts and other amenities to regular passengers; Philtranco SMS (short message service); PhilKargo, a cargo transport system; and, most recently, the computerized ticketing and reservations system, launched during the 2004 anniversary. With new terminals in Iloilo, Tandag and the newest terminal in Cubao, Quezon City, Philtranco now has 16 major terminals, 30 end points and 200 destinations nationwide."

  10. {{cite news |last=Valencia |first=Lynda B. |date= |title=Philtranco links Luzon, Visayas & M'danao |newspaper=Manila Bulletin |agency=Philippine News Agency |id={{Factiva|MABULL0020030820dz8l0001q}} }}

      The article notes: "Philtranco now known as Philtranco Service Enterprises (PSEI) will be tapping the niche market by launching a new value bus business that will be separate from Philtranco, ... A.L. Ammen decided to buy a Grawbosky truck, a rickety transport, running on two-cylinder engine with tires no different from the ice cream "carrozas" of the time, from the United States and converted this to a passenger truck. The Grawbosky seats were in arranged 'jardiniera-style' typical of the period. But passengers taking the ride were in their best suit complete with hats. The Philtranco Transport Heritage Museum at Philtranco's original terminal in Iriga City has been declared a national historical site by the National Historical Institute (NHI). That declaration recognized A.L. Ammen Transportation Company (ALATCO), the predecessor memorabilia tracing the milestones in the oldest bus firm's pioneering venture in the creation of organized transport system in the Philippines. At present, Philtranco has the widest area of coverage in the Philippines. With 15 terminals nationwide, it carries more than 2.7 million passengers a year to more than 30 endpoints and 200 destinations throughout the country. "

  There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Philtranco to pass Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)#Primary criteria, which requires "significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject".

  Cunard (talk) 13:05, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

• Keep Meets WP:NCORP with sources presented by Cunard. They're reliable and in-depth enough IMV. SBKSPP (talk) 02:16, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
• Keep, one of the classic Philippine transportation companies. Cunard's WP:RS are well more than enough. I know most rich kids do not ride buses, but transport companies are not just airlines. Howard the Duck (talk) 22:41, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
• Keep Important to note that this was previously known as Alatco, and then, as per above, there is plenty of sourcing. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 09:26, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

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