PAL Brings Home Folks Stranded in Afghanistan

8 September 2021 

 

Flag carrier Philippine Airlines has brought back stranded Overseas Foreign Workers in Afghanistan back home to Manila today under mandatory Repatriation Flight spearheaded by the Department of Foreign Affairs.  They were transported by A321 (RP-C9934) long range aircraft. The government has issued Alert Level 4 (mandatory evacuation/repatriation) for the whole of Afghanistan in August 15 due to large scale internal conflict in the country. The initial 35 Filipino workers were earlier evacuated to Doha, Qatar where they were flown by chartered PAL flight to Manila arriving August 17 and another 40 arriving August 21. Those evacuated to Islamabad in Pakistan were sheltered in the Philippine Embassy pending the arrival of other stranded Filipinos who was evacuated late from Kabul.Islamabad International Airport handled 450 evacuation flights from Afghanistan as the airport became the centre of the military and special commercial flights for coalition troops and citizens of western countries withdrawing from Kabul.