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A PREMIUM airport bus service will be available on the road within six months. If you're familiar with Hong Kong, you'd know how the airport bus service works -- fetching you from the the airport to your destination in the city. According to Inquirer.net ,  Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) executive director Roberto Cabrera said on Monday that AirFreight 2100 Inc. will roll out half of the 44 units for the airport bus service which flight passengers can use for transportation from each of the three Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) terminals to a destination in Roxas Boulevard and the Makati Business District areas. The next phase will be for the NAIA-Bonifacio Global City route, he added. Here's what we know so far... AMENITIES  The airport bus service will be more spacious than your ordinary bus and will only load up to 24 passengers so you'd have enough room for your luggage. They will be equipped with CCTV securi...

IF YOU'RE packing for a flight, be sure to know this new list of prohibited items that applies to all flights originating within the country. In an article from ABS-CBN News , it said the Department of Transportation and Communications-Office of Transportation Security already released memorandum circular MC2015-02, listing seven categories as among those prohibited inside airplanes. As follows: 1. Guns, Firearms and Other Devices that Discharge Projectiles PROHIBITED IN CARRY-ON AND CHECKED-IN BAGGAGE: air gun; ammunition shells, bullets and other component; bolt gun; component of guns and firearm; compressed air gun; firearms; flare gun; harpoon gun; nail gun; pellet guns; pistol; replicas and imitation firearms; revolver; rifle; shotgun; spear gun; sport-related firearm PROHIBITED IN CARRY-ON BUT ALLOWED IN CHECKED-IN BAGGAGE ONLY: slingshots; bow and arrow; and crossbows NOTE: All forms of firearms and guns prohibited must be endorsed to the appropriate law e...

T hey never learn. On Wednesday, a man was sent to jail after cracking a joke to a flight attendant that he's carrying a bag containing a bomb, according to a radio report. Surigao businessman Arnold Go, 42, was at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport and on board Cebu Pacific Flight 5J223 bound for Butuan City when a flight attendant requested him to place his hand-carried bag into the baggage compartment just above his head. Go said he cannot do so because his bag contains an explosive device. The flight attendant was quick to react. She ran to the cockpit and informed the pilot. Airport authorities arrived, arrested Go and immediately hauled him off the plane. It was later learned that the bag did not contain any bomb. Go will be charged with violation of Presidential Decree 1727, often referred to as the "Anti-bomb Joke Law" with penalty of 5 years imprisonment or a fine of P40,000 or both. Just last year, Kim Castillo, an OFW from Dubai, was also...