Over 600,000 travelers have registered at the Department of Science and Technology's (DOST) online travel management system or Safe, Swift and Smart Passage (S-PaSS). Safe, Swift and Smart Passage or S-PaSS (Department of Science and Technology) The DOST Region VII, which developed the travel app,...
The extraordinary impact of COVID-19 continued to pull down demand for air travel (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs), which plummeted 74.7 percent in February 2021. This was worse than the 72.2 percent decline recorded in January 2021 versus two years ago, according to the latest...
Digital health certificates may be the key to restart air travel worldwide. Already, Singapore has become the first country to accept the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Travel pass, the umbrella group of airlines yesterday (April 6) announced. Starting next month, May 1, 2021,...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) last night (March 17) announced the successful trial of its Travel Pass app for managing passengers' health credentials on an actual flight. The first first traveler using the IATA travel pass flew via Singapore Airlines' and arrived at London’s...
With the second half of the 2020-21 season underway, the NBA is once again welcoming the world’s best basketball players back on the hardwood. Fresh from the NBA All-Star 2021 festivities, teams are now fighting for homecourt advantage in the race to the NBA Playoffs. Mark your calendars and...
Paranaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez, also the chairman of the Metro Manila Council (MMC), said quarantine passes will not be implemented during the two weeks of unified curfew hour from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. starting Monday, March 15. A member (L) of a police special action force checks for required...
As coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases soar in Metro Manila, the Metro Manila Council (MMC) will come up with new policies such as unified curfew hours, border controls to curb its spread, and possibly the re-issue of quarantine passes. A member of the police manning a checkpoint asks to see the...
As the 2020-21 NBA season continues to excite hardcore basketball fans, PLDT Home Fibr enhances the entertainment experience at home with NBA League Pass, the league’s premium live game subscription service, which delivers the most comprehensive live and on-demand access to NBA games and content...
Global passenger demand in January 2021 (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) plunged 72 per cent versus January 2019, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced last night (March 2). That was worse than the 69.7 percent year-over-year decline recorded in December...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has approved the integration of pass-through taxes in the electric bills that will be dispatched by distribution utilities (DUs) to their customers. In a recently issued resolution, the regulatory body has allowed the pass-on of taxes being levied to private...
The government has revised its testing and quarantine protocols for Filipino citizens and eligible non-Filipinos arriving in the Philippines from countries where travel restrictions are in place due to new COVID-19 variants. (Manila Bulletin File Photo) This was according to the advisory which...
Emirates has partnered with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to become one of the first airlines in the world to trial the IATA Travel Pass, a 'digital passport' that verifies passengers' pre-travel test or vaccination to comply with any government's COVID-19 requirements. Before...
