Airlines told: Account for terminal fee take

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd on Friday sought an immediate accounting of the “illegal” collection of travel tax and terminal fee from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) for the last three years.

“They [airline companies] have to account to us how much they collected for the last three years and up to now and how much they have remitted to CAAP [Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines]. We will also ask the CAAP to account to us how much has been remitted to them by the airlines, and then ask them to remit this amount immediately to the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration because OWWA is the trustee of the OFWs,” Bello told reporters.