Around 3,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were assisted with their rebooking flights after hundreds of flights were disrupted on Sunday due to technical issues that closed the Philippine airspace, the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said Monday.
In an ANC interview, DMW Undersecretary Hans Leo Cacdac said most of the stranded OFWs had flights supposedly going to the Middle East and other Asian countries.
“By our count, roughly around 3,000 OFWs were assisted with their rebooking insofar as getting themselves flights today and up to the next two or three days is concerned,” he said.as the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines recorded a technical issue at the Philippine Air Traffic Management Center.
Cacdac said many of the affected OFWs were given assistance by their airlines and recruitment agencies. They were also provided aid in terms of food, transport, and hotel accommodation. Around 400 of these OFWs stranded at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport , and airports of Clark and Mactan, had sought help in booking hotel accommodation, he added.and flights — both arriving and departing — have already resumed.
According to transport officials, flight operations in Manila are expected to fully recover in three days, but—KBK, GMA Integrated News
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