Cebu Pacific safely brings home 217 Filipinos from Dubai via special commercial flight 5J 27 on Sept. 4 in response to the government’s call for assistance to repatriate workers who were stranded due to the travel restriction. This is the seventh CEB-arranged Bayanihan flight that was mounted with the approval of the Philippine government’s special working group. The government imposed in May a travel ban to the United Arab Emirates to curb the spread of COVID-19 and its variants. Aside from meal and baggage allowance upgrades, passengers on this flight received gift packs from Universal Robina Corp.
