Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) General Manager Ed Monreal met with the airport’s key officials in preparation for tomorrow’s reversion to Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) of the National Capital Region (NCR). The MIAA operates NAIA Terminals 1, 2, 3, and 4 — all located in Pasay City, Metro Manila.
Based on existing Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) Omnibus Guidelines on Community Quarantine, MIAA will adopt a 50% workforce deployment in back-office work. However, employees performing frontline duties are not included in this directive.
It will be normal operation days for those assigned in-flight operations, terminal monitoring, facilities management and maintenance, security, safety, and emergency services.
The airport chief further stressed that personnel of janitorial companies that have contracts with MIAA should be on full complement despite the MECQ. Security guards contracted by MIAA shall likewise remain on full deployment.
The MIAA will provide shuttle buses for use of airport workers plying routes covering Manila, Quezon City, and Cavite. Airport personnel will also be provided free meals and hazard pay equivalent to PHP500 per day, the latter in compliance with DBM Circular 2020-1 dated 24 March 2020.
In a separate meeting with the airlines, GM Monreal — a former airline boss, himself — called on local air carriers to properly inform their passengers about rebooking instructions in view of the temporary suspension of domestic flights in and out of Manila under MECQ.
Metro Manila, together with the provinces of Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal will be placed under MECQ effective 0001H of Tuesday, 04 August 2020.