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| Ignacio welcomes some of the first batch of OFWs who enjoyed the lounge's facilities |
OFWs catching their flights through Terminal 1 of Ninoy Aquino International Airport, can enjoy their last moments in the country by staying at the OFW Lounge which opened recently at the Departure Area.
Patterned after the lounges put up by airlines for their
business and first class passengers, the OFW lounge offers comfortable seats
for those waiting for their flights. Food and drinks are free to all OFWs, whatever
flight class they are in.
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They can enter whether or not they are members of Overseas
Workers Welfare Administration.
“To enter, all they need to say is, ‘I am an OFW’,” OWWA Administrator
Arnell Ignacio said.
The lounge opened last Jan. 13, in a ceremony attended by
Ignacio and a group of congressmen led by House Speaker Martin Romualdez.
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The lounge is a joint project of the House of
Representatives, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), Department of
Migrant Workers and Manila International Airport Authority.
Ignacio said the next OFW Lounge will open at Terminal 3.
More such lounges are being planned in other international
airports in Clark, Pampanga; Cebu; and Davao.
Ignacio said this was their way of treating OFWs as real VIPs.
“That's the way we want to express our love for our OFWs,”
he added.
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