Samar solon hits LGUs refusing to open airports, wants policy gap fixed

The chair of the House transport panel lamented the refusal of some local government units to open their airports to domestic flights. | CMRamosINQ

However, the national government’s interagency task force for the coronavirus pandemic allowed LGUs to also“We just want to have consistency if not the airlines cannot take off…The airline industry is at a total loss. We just have to be consistent with policy,” Sarmiento added.Interior Undersecretary RJ Echiverri explained to the committee that during the first two weeks after the IATF issues guidelines, “local governments tend to have their own interpretation.

In response, Sarmiento appealed to the DILG to resolve the gap between the implementation of policies of the LGUs and the IATF. “We would like to appeal, there are a lot of these locally stranded individuals, not in the category of overseas [Filipino] workers, not on the returning overseas Filipinos but those who wanted to fly,” he added.

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