This means that a ticket from Germany to the Philippines will cost some PHP 2600.00 more. The only difference is that the Germans hit all travelers while the Pinoys hit only their own people.
If you think that you can buy your 2011 ticket now to avoid the new tax, you are wrong. All tickets with travel date of 01/01/2011 or later are already subject to the tax.
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( 3 / 15 )The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is evaluating the performance of its personnel assigned at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) and other ports following numerous complaints from the public of poor service.
The head of BI issued the order after receiving reports that many immigration officers were not in their designated counters even when there were long queues of passengers waiting for their turns to be processed.
The BI also wants a new training module for immigration officers to enhance the service delivery in the country’s various ports.
Let's hope
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( 2.2 / 10 )Tawi-Tawi, one of the last islands between Mindanao and Borneo wants to become the new tourist destination of the Philippines.
Tawi-Tawi's governor, Sadikul Sahali, thinks that they now need a serious and aggressive promotion of their tourism attractions, destinations and potentials to get the much needed boost in the tourism field.
Tawi-Tawi will showcase its various interesting tourist destinations and tourism potentials during the celebration of the province’s 37th founding anniversary, “Kamahardikaan”, which is scheduled from September 25 to 27, this year.
[Editor's comment]
The idea is good. Tawi-Tawi and the whole Sulu archipelago are beautiful and can compete with Thailand's islands. But there is still a very, very big security problem in the region. This problem has to be resolved first.
[End of Editor's comment]
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( 4 / 1 )The air in the north-west region of the Pacific Ocean is now very turbulent.
The reason is the very warm water in the South-China Sea. the surface temperatures are between 29°C and 31°C (86°F to 88°F).
Currently 3 storms are active:
Tropical Storm Lionrock
;)
Typhoon Kompasu
;)
Tropical Depression Namtheun
;)
And 3 Tropical Disturbances (LPAs) are drifting west or northwestwards.
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Seems to be cellphone orthography...
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( 3 / 24 )Everywhere in the Philippines but especially in tourist spots like Boracay, Manila and Panglao you can buy "Swiss" watches at very affordable prices.
Of course, they are fake. They should be called Lolex instead of Rolex.
Have you seen the roman 4? Romans did write 4 as IV, but Chinese fake-factories do not understand Latin language. They write IIII...
Be careful.
1. To import a counterfeit watch in your country may be illegal and you may be heavily fined.
2. The quality is simply trash. Maybe they work for some months. Very often you won't enjoy your rusty thing on your wrist.
3. The prices are too high. A "Quartz" watch is between 500 and 700 Pesos. A mechanical, automatic watch is sold for 1000 to 1400 Pesos. But negotiations start around 4000 pesos... Don't have you laid!
4. The watches are made in Shanghai. Factory exit price is USD 12 maximum.
Did you understand? If you want to play with a Lolex, Bleitling or Lado, be careful!
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( 3 / 20 )A Philippine Airlines Airbus A320-200, registration RP-C8613 performing flight PR-321 from Manila to Kalibo with 127 passengers and 6 crew, touched Kalibo Airport's perimeter fence and damaged the right landing gear.
The crew aborted the approach to Kalibo and returned to Manila, where the airplane landed safely about 2 hours after departure.
The only victims were a married couple riding a tricycle on the road ahead of runway 23. They were blown over when the airplane went around. The couple was taken to a local hospital in Kalibo.
Kalibo's runway 05/23 is only 2187 meters (7200 feet) long. The road from Kalibo to New Washington passes in close distance to the threshold of runway 23.
Here you may see all domestic airports.
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( 2.2 / 10 )Pacific Flier announces on their website www.pacificflier.com that they suspend all flights to Koror Airport in Palau.
Up to now, Pacific Flier linked Clark Airport in the Philippines with Koror Airport in Palau.
Pacific Flier writes: Pacific Flier, regrets to advise that due to continuing delays in being granted appropriate traffic rights and workable terminal access in Koror, Palau, it will suspend all flights until appropriate traffic rights and access is in place and the company is able to sell all sectors without compromise.
Palau is only one and a half hour from Clark. We hope Pacific Flier will be back soon.
For more flights within the Philippines and surrounding islands see here.
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( 3.3 / 6 )The Camiguin Action Geckos have a nice video on YouTube:
Read more about the Camiguin Action Geckos
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( 3 / 6 )The PAL crisis makes the government move.
Background:
25 of PAL's senior pilots have moved to international airlines where the pay is higher.
1600 cabin crew members are threatening to go on strike as negotiation between crew and management over various labor-related issues have reached a deadlock.
Possible solution:
Implementation of an open skies policy, which will allow more flights to enter the country and abolish the pre-set flight limit currently imposed.
The benefits of having an open skies policy are shown by Indonesia. In Indonesia, tourist arrival went up to three million from just 30,000 visitors, before the introduction of the open skies policy.
Up to now, no airline in the Philippines did comment the president's proposal.
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