Airport authorities put up one-stop shop for special flights

Government agencies based at Ninoy Aquino International Airport will be creating soon a one-stop shop to process special flights and ensure such trips are not being used in human trafficking, the spokesperson of the Bureau of Immigration said. /PDI

Sandoval was referring to the Dubai-bound chartered flight with seven passengers and three crew members that took off from Naia’s Balabag ramp last Feb. 13.

Sandoval confirmed that the BI received a report that there was an immigration officer present at the site even though he was was not assigned to the flight. Asked about the belated adding of the name of the seventh person to the general declaration form that the Aviation Security Group had issued, Sandoval replied: “This is not uncommon, it’s like in regular commercial flights, [where] there are last minute check-in of passengers wanting to catch the flight.”

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