‘Pila tayo’

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte holds his first Cabinet meeting being held at the Aguinaldo State Dining Room of the Malacañan Palace. The agenda focuses on disaster risk reduction and management status of the country. MALACAÑANG POOL PHOTO

NO special treatment.

President Rodrigo Duterte wanted to stop the protocol of having a 30-minute hiatus in the operations of airports in the country when the President flies in and out.

“I want this stopped. We should not be treated different from the other suffering Filipino passengers,” Duterte told his Cabinet members during their first official meeting.

Noting that airports are already crowded and he does not want to add to the problem, Duterte said Transportation and Communications Secretary Arthur Tugade should relay his plan to the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP).

“Siguro si Art would just advise the CAAP na anyone of us kung bigyan tayo ng priority to take off e ‘di salamat tayo but we should also follow everyone’s travail…pila tayo,” he said.

“We should treat ourselves just like any other Filipino travelling,” he added.

He said that if airport operations would be halted to give way to high-profile public officials, air traffic would be congested and other flights would be delayed.

Duterte had said before that he would fly from Davao to Manila and back using commercial planes./ac

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