IT is commendable and noteworthy that the Department of Transportation (DoTr), together with the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), is showing independence and confidence in its judgment by advocating the gradual reopening of domestic airports that fall under the general community quarantine (GCQ) as a step toward a reboot of the operations of commercial aviation.
If the issue is left to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to decide, it will most likely and predictably opt to keep aviation totally locked down, as the psychology of pandemics and crisis usually counsel keeping tight controls instead of lifting them in order not to avoid making a mistake.
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