Philippine Airlines (PAL) is expanding its Iloilo services this month to further increase connectivity between Visayas and Mindanao.
In a statement, PAL said it is relaunching routes from Iloilo to Cebu and General Santos City on December 7 and from Iloilo to Davao on December 8, 2021.
PAL expanded its route network just in time for the peak holiday season, enabling more people to reunite with families in their home provinces. Beyond the holidays, the new flights will help foster economic recovery as various parts of Visayas and Mindanao reopen for business and tourism, the airline said.
PAL said it continues to operate flights to the following “Green” list countries/regions — Indonesia, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia — despite the revised entry protocols and expanded list of “Red” countries.
According to Philippine health authorities’ revised entry protocols effective Nov. 28, 2021, eligible travelers to the Philippines from countries or regions on the “Green” list will now be subjected to the same quarantine and testing protocols that apply to arrivals from countries in the “Yellow” list classification.
“Except for countries classified as ‘Red,’ the testing and quarantine protocols for all inbound international travelers in all ports of entry shall comply with the testing and quarantine protocols for ‘Yellow’ list countries,” the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) announced yesterday.
The IATF also said travelers from Hong Kong shall comply with protocols set for ‘Yellow’ countries/regions.
The revised “Red” list now includes South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and Italy.
Inbound international travel shall not be allowed for all persons, regardless of vaccination status, coming from or who have been to “Red” list countries/regions within the last 14 days prior to arrival to any port of the Philippines.
Only Filipinos returning to the country via government-initiated or non-government-initiated repatriation and Bayanihan Flights may be allowed entry subject to the prevailing entry, testing and quarantine protocols for “Red” list countries — facility-based quarantine for 14 days with testing on the seventh day, with day 1 being the date of arrival, notwithstanding a negative RT-PCR result. – Myla Iglesias
