Last Monday’s column of Antonio Montalvan II in the Philippine Daily Inquirer titled “The people are not her bosses” was about Imelda Nicolas, chairperson of the Commission on Overseas Filipinos.”
He related of his experience lining up for his Philippine Airlines flight last Oct. 1, when the airline’s operations were in chaos because of the wildcat strike of the PAL Employees Union.
Here’s a portion of Montalvan’s narration of the incident:
“Aggravating the already chaotic situation, only two entrance gates of Terminal 3 were opened to departing passengers that morning. Everybody just had to catch their flights. “Everybody” included one latecomer, arriving in an SUV, who was right away allowed entry into the terminal in full view of everyone in that long, long line. It was my turn next to go through the baggage scanner, except that I had to stop and give way to this favored one.