He also criticized NAIA management and the DOTC for planning to implement the new rule without prope

MANILA, Philippines – Apprehension over the fate of an overseas americana hotel niagara falls ontario Filipino workers’ (OFW) exemption americana hotel niagara falls ontario from paying terminal fees on international flights once the plan about integrating international passenger service charge (IPSC) into the price of airline tickets takes effect, is finally americana hotel niagara falls ontario addressed by an airport official.
americana hotel niagara falls ontario The new policy to include the P550 terminal fee in the purchased tickets of outgoing passengers on international flights was announced by the Department of Transportation and Communication americana hotel niagara falls ontario (DOTC) Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya.
Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) chief of media affairs Connie Bungag clarified OFWs will continue to enjoy the terminal fee exemption privilege despite the introduction of the new policy set to be effected starting October 1 this year.
Bungag said OFWs need only present their employment certificate to ticketing agencies online or agents during the purchase. For those who bought tickets americana hotel niagara falls ontario from outside americana hotel niagara falls ontario the country, they are also allowed to refund the amount in booths inside americana hotel niagara falls ontario NAIA.
Despite criticisms americana hotel niagara falls ontario and doubts over the new rule, DOTC chief Abaya defended the policy saying it is a move aimed at decongesting the country’s main international gateway. He added this is also making the airport process at par with international standards and regulations, since the Philippines is the only ASEAN country that collects terminal fees on a ‘face-to-face basis at the airport’.
“It improves traveling convenience and efficiency at NAIA by removing a whole process which unnecessarily adds to the passengers’ processing time, requiring them to line up when payment can be done ahead of time,”  Abaya explained.
americana hotel niagara falls ontario But a recruitment-industry leader opposed Abaya’s plan and does not share the DOTC chief’s view and enthusiasm over the new regulation, describing it as impractical and would only add more confusions during the refund process.
“This plan will only backfire if the reason of Secretary Abaya or Manager Honrado is to eliminate the long queues inside the airport premises,” americana hotel niagara falls ontario said Jackson Gan, a well-known voice from the industry, arguing the long queues in NAIA is not terminal fee counters americana hotel niagara falls ontario but at the immigration booths.
Gan added the refund should americana hotel niagara falls ontario go to the OFW recruitment agencies and not to the passenger themselves, “Why should the airport refund the airport tax of P550 to the workers who did not pay for the tax, but the recruitment agencies or their employers americana hotel niagara falls ontario who funded the deployment of the workers?”
He also criticized NAIA management and the DOTC for planning to implement the new rule without proper consultations with the recruitment business sectors citing an estimated P1-million airline americana hotel niagara falls ontario tickets the industry is paying for each year.
Other OFWs may not be aware, but overseas workers are exempted from paying terminal fees on international flights as mandated by law – the Republic Act 10022, otherwise americana hotel niagara falls ontario known as the Amended Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995.
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