Port of entry to phillipines from USA

[Scaret_e 14]

has anyone traveled from USA to Philippines the last couple days? My wife has informed me that once you land at the airport they are testing everyone for covid-19. 
 

My concern is I have a connecting flight from Manila to Davao the same day. 
will they be doing testing in Davao instead of Manila just because I have a connecting flight?? 
So has anyone had any connecting flight from Manila to Cebu,mindano, and Davao etc. ?
What was the procedure ??

 

[onek 306]

1 hour ago, Scaret_e said:

has anyone traveled from USA to Philippines the last couple days? My wife has informed me that once you land at the airport they are testing everyone for covid-19. 
 

My concern is I have a connecting flight from Manila to Davao the same day. 
will they be doing testing in Davao instead of Manila just because I have a connecting flight?? 
So has anyone had any connecting flight from Manila to Cebu,mindano, and Davao etc. ?
What was the procedure ??

 

I would assume they test it at the final destination otherwise the wouldn’t have allowed you to book the flight.

you may want to check with the airline to confirm this information.

[Allovertheworld 355]

9 hours ago, Scaret_e said:

has anyone traveled from USA to Philippines the last couple days? My wife has informed me that once you land at the airport they are testing everyone for covid-19. 
 

My concern is I have a connecting flight from Manila to Davao the same day. 
will they be doing testing in Davao instead of Manila just because I have a connecting flight?? 
So has anyone had any connecting flight from Manila to Cebu,mindano, and Davao etc. ?
What was the procedure ??

 

You have to complete a 14 day quarantine as well.  All flight from Manila/Clark and Cebu are grounded until the 31st.  So I don't see you leaving Manila area anytime soon once you arrive. 

 

https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/344006/philippines-philippine-airlines-to-resume-flights-from-june-1-with-restrictions-update-21

[Cyberfx1024 7,978]

1 hour ago, Allovertheworld said:

You have to complete a 14 day quarantine as well.  All flight from Manila/Clark and Cebu are grounded until the 31st.  So I don't see you leaving Manila area anytime soon once you arrive. 

 

https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/344006/philippines-philippine-airlines-to-resume-flights-from-june-1-with-restrictions-update-21

This is true. I have a family member that flew back there and just completed the 14 day quarantine period as well

[Scaret_e 14]

11 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

This is true. I have a family member that flew back there and just completed the 14 day quarantine period as well

Yea but I don’t get to Manila till June 3 so might be different 

[Allovertheworld 355]

17 hours ago, Scaret_e said:

Yea but I don’t get to Manila till June 3 so might be different 

Possible.  Hopefully they will get rid of the quarantine thing soon, and let tourist back into Philippines as well.

 

You know how strict the Mayor of Davao is. Please keep us posted on your journey there.

 

I had my early March trip cancelled to Philippines, and early this week American Airlines called me and informed me my flight for June 8th from USA to Philippines was cancelled, I still have late August trip scheduled to Philippines.  And I have relatives in Davao and will eventually make it down there during the trip.

 

[Scaret_e 14]

7 hours ago, Allovertheworld said:

Possible.  Hopefully they will get rid of the quarantine thing soon, and let tourist back into Philippines as well.

 

You know how strict the Mayor of Davao is. Please keep us posted on your journey there.

 

I had my early March trip cancelled to Philippines, and early this week American Airlines called me and informed me my flight for June 8th from USA to Philippines was cancelled, I still have late August trip scheduled to Philippines.  And I have relatives in Davao and will eventually make it down there during the trip.

 

Well that probably because your taking American Airlines. I’m taking pal airlines so might be different with the scheduling. 

[Just Paul 4,591]

9 hours ago, Allovertheworld said:

American Airlines called me and informed me my flight for June 8th from USA to Philippines was cancelled

American Airlines does not fly to Philippines and hasn't for decades of ever. I have 5 million miles on AA and never have been on AA metal to there.  United and Delta do and Hawaii did at one time.  You either go to Narita and go via JAL or usually to Hong Kong and then via Cathay Pacific or on PAL.  There was an option to connect via China Southern in Guangzhou but that was to start in April. Cathay is running at less than 10% of it precovid schedule and hasn't run a revenue flight to Manila or Cebu since around March 1 ( I had a flight out from PI scheduled for March 3 that was changed by American/Cathay 11 times before they just re-booked it via Narita on JAL

[Scaret_e 14]

8 minutes ago, Paul & Mary said:

American Airlines does not fly to Philippines and hasn't for decades of ever. I have 5 million miles on AA and never have been on AA metal to there.  United and Delta do and Hawaii did at one time.  You either go to Narita and go via JAL or usually to Hong Kong and then via Cathay Pacific or on PAL.  There was an option to connect via China Southern in Guangzhou but that was to start in April. Cathay is running at less than 10% of it precovid schedule and hasn't run a revenue flight to Manila or Cebu since around March 1 ( I had a flight out from PI scheduled for March 3 that was changed by American/Cathay 11 times before they just re-booked it via Narita on JAL hmmm

Well before I was taking Cathay as always and which was closer for me right at Newark airport. So I’m taking a straight flight from JFK

(pal airlines)to Manila and hopefully to Davao that’s my connecting flight.  

 

hope it all works out 🙏🏽

[Allovertheworld 355]

25 minutes ago, Paul & Mary said:

American Airlines does not fly to Philippines and hasn't for decades of ever. I have 5 million miles on AA and never have been on AA metal to there.  United and Delta do and Hawaii did at one time.  You either go to Narita and go via JAL or usually to Hong Kong and then via Cathay Pacific or on PAL.  There was an option to connect via China Southern in Guangzhou but that was to start in April. Cathay is running at less than 10% of it precovid schedule and hasn't run a revenue flight to Manila or Cebu since around March 1 ( I had a flight out from PI scheduled for March 3 that was changed by American/Cathay 11 times before they just re-booked it via Narita on JAL

Japan airlines is the travel partner of AA. I fly into Japan and take Japan airlines into Manila.  I do all my booking thru the AA website, thus why AA called me.

 

There are no direct flights to Philippines from DFW airport. 

[Allovertheworld 355]

2 hours ago, Scaret_e said:

Well that probably because your taking American Airlines. I’m taking pal airlines so might be different with the scheduling. 

PAL only fly into a California and New York. I think only 3 airports in the USA.  They used to fly into Las Vegas but I think they stopped around 2012,  but you still had to land in Vancouver for them to gas the plane up, which they made you deplane and wait in a isolated area for a couple of hours.

[Just Paul 4,591]

2 minutes ago, Allovertheworld said:

I fly into Japan and take Japan airlines into Manila. 

Done that route dozens of times.  Was just thru there March 3rd. They got the terminal almost all redone for the olympics . . . and then . . . here we are.

[Allovertheworld 355]

2 minutes ago, Paul & Mary said:

Done that route dozens of times.  Was just thru there March 3rd. They got the terminal almost all redone for the olympics . . . and then . . . here we are.

 I was scheduled to leave March 6th, got canned on that fight, rescheduled it to June 8th that one got canned on Saturday.  I booked another flight to Philippines for late August, I had booked that one like 6 months ago.

 

I am feeling optimistic about my August trip happening, I just hope the country has nightlife and entertainment districts open especially in Manila and Davao.

[Scaret_e 14]

On 5/22/2020 at 12:46 PM, Allovertheworld said:

 I was scheduled to leave March 6th, got canned on that fight, rescheduled it to June 8th that one got canned on Saturday.  I booked another flight to Philippines for late August, I had booked that one like 6 months ago.

 

I am feeling optimistic about my August trip happening, I just hope the country has nightlife and entertainment districts open especially in Manila and Davao.

So my flight for June 2 got canceled out there my wife spoke to Philippines  airlines they got me a flight on June 15 (🙏🏽) and if anything if the flight was supposed to be canceled they advise us to go to US Embassy/Manila website  to make a special flight just because her visa expires in July 2. Has anyone heard such thing go into US Embassy or manila Embassy website regarding about special flights??

[Scaret_e 14]

On 5/25/2020 at 8:20 AM, Scaret_e said:

So my flight for June 2 got canceled out there my wife spoke to Philippines  airlines they got me a flight on June 15 (🙏🏽) and if anything if the flight was supposed to be canceled they advise us to go to US Embassy/Manila website  to make a special flight just because her visa expires in July 2. Has anyone heard such thing go into US Embassy or manila Embassy website regarding about special flights??

So my flight jfk to manila got cancelled for the second time again. Suppose to leave in a week and on top of that is my wife has to get here before her visa expires which is in July. its not like my wife and i are not trying to get a flight as possible as we can. But we spoke about it what if we don't get a flight before her visa expires. I can feel her emotion, especially what she been through by herself raising our daughter alone . I told her let's not get discourage about this and its not like we did not do anything about it. So with that being said what's the process to get another visa for my wife? it's not like they will extend her visa and also the whole country was on lock down for 2-3 months. I'm sure we was not the only one in this situation to get where they need to be before the visa expires..

 

if anyone has any opinion let me know and we appreciate you visa journey community