Bohol Guv issues air travel protocols

for Bohol-bound passengers

CORTES, Bohol, Nov. 23 (PIA) -- Bohol has simplified and unified the guidelines for sea and air travel to Bohol for returning Boholanos and persons who are authorized to come.

Through Executive Order No. 54, Bohol Gov. Arthur Yap has allowed the resumption of all domestic commercial flights to transport returning locally stranded individuals (LSI), returning Overseas Filipino Workers (ROF), and Authorized Persons Outside Residence (APOR) with complete travel documents.

By the complete travel documents, the governor means one less hurdle as the local requirement as set by the Bohol Inter Agency Task Force (BIATF) which is the BIATF Clearance for sea and air travel has been repealed with the new and unified guidelines as ruled by the executive order.

Under the new executive order, Bohol-bound LSIs upon check-in at the airport of origin shall present together with their confirmed plane tickets a travel authority from the Philippine National Police Joint Task Force COVID Shield, and a Letter of Confirmation from the local government unit of residence in Bohol, apart from other specific requirements.

For APORs, especially when they are health and emergency frontline service personnel, aside from the PNP JTF COVID Shield Travel Authority and Letter of Conformation from the receiving LGU, they shall present their Professional Regulations Commission license, official ID card, hospital ID Card or any proof of their occupation. 

If the APOR is a government official or government frontline personnel, they also need to present other than their confirmed tickets the PNP Shield Travel Authority, LGU Certificate of Confirmation, and an official ID card of their office.

If the APOR is travelling for medical reasons, in addition to the confirmed plane ticket, the passenger must also present a Certificate from the Local Chief Executive (LCE) of the LGU having jurisdiction over the passenger’s residence and a Medical Certificate.

If the APOR is travelling for humanitarian reasons, aside from his confirmed ticket and other requirements, he must also present a Certificate from the local chief executive of the LGU that has jurisdiction over the passenger’s residence.

And if the APOR is travelling to Bohol for pertinent work, other than confirmed plane tickets, PNP COVID Shield Travel Authority and the LGU Certificate of Confirmation, he must also present a company ID card and a certificate of employment from the employer stating that they are connected with the company. 

If the APOR is an owner of business establishments allowed to operate in Bohol or going back home, he must present plane ticket, PNP JTF COVID Shield Travel Authority, LGU letter of Confirmation, and LCE Certificate of the LGU that has jurisdiction over his residence.

If the APOR is traveling to Bohol for connecting flights abroad, he must also present confirmed plane tickets and proof of residence or work abroad.

If the APOR belongs to other professionals in permitted professions other than the basic travel requirements and LGU Certificate of Confirmation, they must present a proof of their profession and another document reflecting their proof of travel to Bohol.

Returning OFWs flying in to Bohol, upon check-in, should present together with their confirmed plane tickets and Certificate of Confirmation from the receiving LGU, an appropriate identification as OFW or certificate from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration for OFWs and any proof of residence of the ROF.

Those with incomplete documents would not be allowed to board the aircraft, according to the EO. 

Check-in protocols also include non-contact temperature check, while those with visible symptoms of COVID-19 would be checked and would be denied entry to the Bohol-bound aircraft.

On their way to Bohol, passengers are required to fill up the Passenger Personal Health Declaration Form, which would be collected inflight by the aircraft personnel and turned over to the Department of Health and Bureau of Quarantine in Bohol.

Anyone who fails to submit the filled-out form would not be allowed to deplane until he has submitted the personal health declaration form.

If a passenger becomes symptomatic of COVID-19 during the flight, he shall be isolated at the tail end of the aircraft during the flight and should be the last to deplane accompanied by ground personnel to the designated holding area to be turned over to the BOQ. 

Upon arrival, no passengers would be allowed to leave the airport premises without being received by the extracting team from the receiving LGU or by the accredited accommodation facilities. (rahc/PIA7 Bohol)

UNTIL THE EXTRACTION TEAM ARRIVES. Passengers arriving at the Panglao Bohol Airport are placed in a waiting area while awaiting for the public address calling the LGUs whose extraction team is ready with the vehicle to bring them to the quarantine facility. No one is allowed to leave the airport premises without their LGU's extraction team. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)