PAL To Fly Another Repatriation Flight To Lebanon

24 September 2020

Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) will fly another repatriation flight to Lebanon tomorrow, but this time will bring 5,000 boxes of relief packages from the Philippines to Beirut to help the nation devastated by port explosion and economic turmoil that plague the country.

Part of the relief goods will come from the Lucio Tan Group of companies, which consists 3,000 boxes of surgical masks, 27,500 face shields and 1,000 boxes of Vitamin C.

The DFA-chartered B777-300ER (RP-C7778) flight (PR8680) is expected to bring home around 300 distressed Filipinos from Lebanon on a 12 hour journey. The repatriation team will be led by Chief of Presidential Protocol and Presidential Assistant on Foreign Affairs Robert Eric A. Borje.