Customs-Airlines Row Worsens

[Mr Lee]

:Policeman: This is sure to slow down arriving passengers and cause a real mess for those of us who arrive early next year. :(AN ongoing row between the airlines and Customs staff at the airport took a turn for the worse over the weekend after international airline operators said they will stop providing Customs declaration forms to arriving passengers next year.The Airline Operating Council told the Bureau of Customs on Dec. 2 that it will stop printing and distributing the Customs arrival cards starting Jan. 1 and turn that responsibility over to the bureau.For the last 10 years, the council has shouldered the expense of printing and distributing the cards with help from Smart Communications as a sponsor. But Smart had terminated its sponsorship, and as a result the council would follow suit, group chairman Maria Lourdes San Juan Reyes.The arrival forms are the latest wrinkle in the deteriorating relations between the airlines and Customs staff, who have been threatening to stop working after regular hours because of their unpaid overtime.For decades, the airlines had been paying airport staff overtime and allowances, but they recently stopped because it was the government’s job to pay its employees.The complete story can be read HERE

[Jollygoodfellow]

:541: This is sure to slow down arriving passengers and cause a real mess for those of us who arrive early next year. :yes:AN ongoing row between the airlines and Customs staff at the airport took a turn for the worse over the weekend after international airline operators said they will stop providing Customs declaration forms to arriving passengers next year.The Airline Operating Council told the Bureau of Customs on Dec. 2 that it will stop printing and distributing the Customs arrival cards starting Jan. 1 and turn that responsibility over to the bureau.For the last 10 years, the council has shouldered the expense of printing and distributing the cards with help from Smart Communications as a sponsor. But Smart had terminated its sponsorship, and as a result the council would follow suit, group chairman Maria Lourdes San Juan Reyes.The arrival forms are the latest wrinkle in the deteriorating relations between the airlines and Customs staff, who have been threatening to stop working after regular hours because of their unpaid overtime.For decades, the airlines had been paying airport staff overtime and allowances, but they recently stopped because it was the government’s job to pay its employees.The complete story can be read HERE

Anyone who recently arrived in the Philippines have a problem with the arrival cards?

[Mr Lee]

:541: This is sure to slow down arriving passengers and cause a real mess for those of us who arrive early next year. :yes:AN ongoing row between the airlines and Customs staff at the airport took a turn for the worse over the weekend after international airline operators said they will stop providing Customs declaration forms to arriving passengers next year.The Airline Operating Council told the Bureau of Customs on Dec. 2 that it will stop printing and distributing the Customs arrival cards starting Jan. 1 and turn that responsibility over to the bureau.For the last 10 years, the council has shouldered the expense of printing and distributing the cards with help from Smart Communications as a sponsor. But Smart had terminated its sponsorship, and as a result the council would follow suit, group chairman Maria Lourdes San Juan Reyes.The arrival forms are the latest wrinkle in the deteriorating relations between the airlines and Customs staff, who have been threatening to stop working after regular hours because of their unpaid overtime.For decades, the airlines had been paying airport staff overtime and allowances, but they recently stopped because it was the government’s job to pay its employees.The complete story can be read HERE

Anyone who recently arrived in the Philippines have a problem with the arrival cards?

No Korean Airlines must have made up their own, but they did seem short of them and the stewardess had to go back for refills a few times before she got to us, sort of like they were being rationed.