CEB brings home 1,417 Pinoys

Reyes added that CEB has flown more than 6,500 Filipinos from Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Oman, India, Vietnam, Lebanon and Bahrain through Bayanihan and Department of Foreign Affairs-arranged charter flights since July

Over the past two weeks the Cebu Pacific (CEB) brought home 1,417 Filipinos from Dubai via seven Bayanihan flights to support the government’s repatriation program.

CEB said that its special commercial flights from Dubai-Manila on 11, 13, 18 and 20 October and Dubai-Davao on 21 to 23 October were mounted in coordination with the Philippine government’s special working group. Each passenger gets a meal upgrade and an additional 25-kg baggage allowance on these flights.

All passengers on these Bayanihan flights have to comply with health protocols, including a mandatory facility-based quarantine, and a swab test to be taken on the fifth day for the fully-vaccinated, or seventh day for non/partially vaccinated after arrival.

CEB also coordinated with the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to accommodate all arriving overseas Filipino workers (OFW) and their dependents in Bureau of Quarantine (BoQ)-designated stringent quarantine hotels.

The cost of quarantine accommodation and testing for land-based OFW were shouldered OWWA; while the Philippine Ports Authority covered the cost for sea-based OFW and for all returning overseas Filipinos or non-OFW should arrange and settle for their testing and minimum of six-day quarantine hotel reservations in the same BoQ-designated stringent quarantine facilities.

CEB Strategy Officer chief Alex Reyes said that these Bayanihan flights were mounted so they can bring more Filipinos home. They will keep on working to provide more ways to help more Filipinos, as we enter the holiday season.

Reyes added that CEB has flown more than 6,500 Filipinos from Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Oman, India, Vietnam, Lebanon and Bahrain through Bayanihan and Department of Foreign Affairs-arranged charter flights since July.