The air carrier PAL has sought relaxation in flight caps to enable OFWs to return home.
It has asked the government for a more flexible flight cap stating that many overseas Filipinos are flying home in the remaining days of December and in January 2022.
PAL SVP/Chief Strategy and Planning Officer Dexter Lee told Presidential Adviser Joey Concepcion in his meeting that caps on arriving passengers might lead to stranded OFWs and overwhelm Philippine “embassies and diplomatic posts abroad, especially in OFW-heavy countries such as those in the Middle East.”
Lee said, “Our frontline teams in several countries are receiving a constant stream of requests from OFWs and other Filipinos, begging for a chance to come home and see their families or attend to urgent matters, all the way up to January,”
He added, ” we appeal for the chance to do so. We will do all we can to help secure hotel rooms in coordination with OWWA and the other agencies.”
The PAL has estimated that about 2,500 passengers, mostly OFWs, are affected and the number could rise in days ahead.
