A total of 1,050 overseas Filipino workers stranded by the pandemic arrived in the Philippines today, August 11, via three separate chartered flights.
Cebu Pacific flight 5J29 from Oman arrived in Davao City at 3am today, carrying 381 passengers (including six infants), while Philippine Airlines flight PR8625 arrived in Manila from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates with 346 OFWs. Another 345 stranded Filipinos are expected to land in Cebu this afternoon from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Philippine Airlines flight PR8657.
Migrant Workers’ Affairs Undersecretary Sarah Lou Ysmael Arriola tweeted photos of the repatriation flights, along with the news that four more repatriation flights were scheduled from the UAE this month, including one on Friday, August 13.
The DFA reported the repatriation of over 600,000 OFWs in the 12-month period from May 2020 to May 2021.
Read: DFA Advisory: 7,849 active Covid-19 cases among Filipinos abroad, as of August 9, 2021
DFA welcomes today 1,050 stranded Filipinos in 3 separate chartered repatriation flights from Saudi Arabia, UAE & Oman. The planes landed in Cebu, Manila & Davao respectively. Thank you to our foreign service posts for forging on. @teddyboylocsin @DFAPHL pic.twitter.com/eZHayp2cbC
— Sarah Lou Ysmael Arriola (@slyarriola) August 11, 2021
LOOK: Passengers of PR 8657 from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia are now ready to check in. This DFA chartered repatriation flight is expected to arrive in the Phils on August 11 carrying 345 stranded Filipinos in KSA. @DFAPHL @teddyboylocsin pic.twitter.com/x85qMnXcDs
— Sarah Lou Ysmael Arriola (@slyarriola) August 10, 2021
DFA welcomes today 1,050 stranded Filipinos in 3 separate chartered repatriation flights from Saudi Arabia, UAE & Oman. The planes landed in Cebu, Manila & Davao respectively. Thank you to our foreign service posts for forging on. @teddyboylocsin @DFAPHL pic.twitter.com/eZHayp2cbC
— Sarah Lou Ysmael Arriola (@slyarriola) August 11, 2021
