The following post is a collection of comments from anonymous flyers on PAL. While we understand they fall on deaf ears and blind eyes, we wanted everyone wanting to go back to manila as balikbayans to at least know these stories:
"I bought a box of AA batteries to use for my friend's radio in the US. When I reached the philippine immigration in new NAIA, they opened my luggage. The immigration officer said that the batteries were not allowed on-board the plane, and so they had to be left behind. Weird thing is when I told them I would open one to use for my digital camera, they said it was ok. WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ABOUT? I'm so sad at how garapalan (greedy) our national airline service has become. I'd like to believe the rule about batteries (or any power source) not being allowed onboard, but my other cousin who was flying with her had the same amount of batteries in her bag but hers were all opened, and she wasn't harassed by immigration. Something smells fishy.."
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"I can't believe at how our immigration services personnel is treating filipinos on departure. After I presented my passport to the immigration officer, I was warned by the immigration officer that someone with my name has a criminal record. And that the next time, I needed to file for a declaration document saying that I am not this convicted person. This "document of declaration" is a document that you have to pay for. This immigration officer never even looked up the alleged person's date of birth and other related-information on the computer, so I didn't pay him any heed and just proceeded after uttering 'yes, ok' several times."
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"I'm disgusted at how the porters and customs officers in our port of departure are explicitly asking for money from filipino flyers. They make phrases like 'sige na ma'am, baka may natitira kayong peso dyan, amin na lang po'. It's really disgusting and is just a demonstration to watching foreign passengers at how screwed the values of people of this country is"
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"I'm wondering what this stupid 'terminal fee' is for.. the people who collect this don't even give a receipt. May all people should ask for one the next time they pay something like this. We're not even sure this is all going to the airport. In fact, NAIA is the only airport in the world that you have to pay this stupid 'terminal fee'. You'll never experience that in the US, Japan or Korea - so what gives the Philippine airports rights to charge this when their overall services suck compared to other international airports?"
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My mum completely forgot about the terminal fee once. Thank goodness she had dollars on her or else she wouldn't have been able to board her flight!
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I never really felt harassed at NAIA on the several times I've flown there. I did hear a not-so-subtle comment of "Senior Analyst ka pala eh!" where the Customs Officer was probably asking for a dole out of some sort. She never really expected my bags (I did say I had nothing to declare), and I just smiled and moved along.
You should've said something like "Data encoder lang po ako". And speak in straight english.
You should take adavntage of the fact you really don't look pinoy anymore. You probably spoke in tagalog which gave yourself away.
Sometimes I feel like harassing them back by taking a picture of them on my celphone then post in Gerry Kaimo's new website - that would be really cool!
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