00:00The Bureau of Immigration, or BI, expects daily departures to exceed 40,000 per day
00:05after the New Year celebration.
00:07BI Commissioner Joel Anthony Villado says daily arrivals at the Ninoy Aquino International
00:13Airport, or NIA, during this month have consistently surpassed 40,000 with a peak of 51,000 recorded
00:20in a single day.
00:22He added the agency expects the figures to climb further due to the activities of overseas
00:27Filipino workers, or OFWs, and returning Filipinos who spent the holidays here and
00:32will be returning to their respective residences abroad to resume work there.
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