HK, Macau-bound OFWs still stranded for lack of flights

THOUSANDS of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) bound for Hong Kong and Macau cannot leave Manila due to lack of flights to the Special Administrative Regions (SARs).

Emmanuel Geslani, recruitment consultant and migration expert, said that although the Philippine government has lifted the travel ban to Hong Kong and Macau "these workers still have not left from those destinations because the tickets they are holding are for local carriers PAL (Philippine Airlines), Cebu Pacific and AirAsia who have not resumed regular flights to those cities."