{"id":93943,"date":"2017-03-14T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T13:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=93943"},"modified":"2017-03-14T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T13:32:00","slug":"miaa-air-carriers-to-sign-moa-exempting-ofws-from-paying-terminal-fee-manila-march-14-pna-the-manila-international-airport-authority-miaa-will-sign-a-memorandum-of-agreement-moa-wi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/14\/miaa-air-carriers-to-sign-moa-exempting-ofws-from-paying-terminal-fee-manila-march-14-pna-the-manila-international-airport-authority-miaa-will-sign-a-memorandum-of-agreement-moa-wi\/","title":{"rendered":"MIAA, air carriers to sign MOA exempting OFWs from paying terminal fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_93544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93544\" style=\"width: 658px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-32.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93544\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-32.png\" alt=\"The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) will sign a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with air carriers on Wednesday, to exempt the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from paying the terminal fee. (Photo: Lady May Pamintuan\/ Flickr)\" width=\"658\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-32.png 658w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-32-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) will sign a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with air carriers on Wednesday, to exempt the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from paying the terminal fee. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mayprodrigo\/7891236946\/in\/photolist-d2jDPq-e8Lqni-aGjEov-bjRVsk-cmtSx3-r77xj2-fUL3zn-fQdZUL-QARTY7-rqj5mr-qtrjdy-cmtbE3-8RFxpP-cmvFpf-cmt6ns-cmsSvs-f4JmKi-cmsN7j-cmvHFN-cmvH2U-96GCaF-8RFxVM-fAwu27-cmt78W-dDhets-bypRnW-8RJEyY-bMjwZV-cmrzRN-cahW3j-dvnWmy-cYahws-bMjykB-cYbuMb-9rdCvp-f4Ynqh-cmsXq5-dvnWfj-cmtQ5Q-96GDZe-qPYrAe-ff8ob2-cmtez7-cmtkAA-bMjzik-cmt9pw-cmtqQE-8uDcQe-8RJENE-cmvE5b\"> Lady May Pamintuan\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) will sign a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with air carriers on Wednesday, to exempt the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from paying the terminal fee.<\/p>\n<p>This exemption will be recognized at any point of sale, and whether the tickets were purchased here or online.<\/p>\n<p>OFWs were required to pay the terminal fee upon purchasing tickets online or in airline ticket offices.<\/p>\n<p>They could claim a terminal fee refund upon departure at the terminal. However, many of them failed to claim a refund due to their busy schedules.<\/p>\n<p>MIAA General Ed Monreal earlier said that OFWs can still claim a refund even if years have already passed, as long as they still have the e-ticket, boarding pass and passport that they used.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid the hassle among OFWs, Monreal coordinated with airlines last year, and targeted March 2017 to eliminate the terminal fee required from the OFWs by the airport\u2019s previous management.<\/p>\n<p>Several months were given for the airlines to upgrade their systems for this exemption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) will sign a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with air carriers on Wednesday, to exempt &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":93544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[11865],"class_list":["post-93943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-manila-international-airport-authority","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}