the Plane with the Danish nationals is expected to land in Copenhagen on Saturday night, informs the Ministry of foreign affairs.
105 danes, who have been stranded in the Philippines, is Saturday on the road headed for Denmark with a special flights.
It informs the Ministry of foreign affairs.
Særflyet in the course of the night Danish time total up passengers in both the city of Cebu and the capital Manila, before it flew to Copenhagen.
the Plane is expected to land around at 21.55 on Saturday night.
– With the danes scattered in many places in the country, local travel restrictions, closed airports and lack of landing permits, it has seen really hard to get the danes back home from the Philippines.
– It I must admit. But it has managed to get a big group home, and it is really positive, ” says minister for foreign affairs Jeppe Kofod (S) in a press release.
According to the Ministry of foreign affairs was 251 danes on Saturday morning stranded in the Philippines. The number is calculated at 9.30 am and then, before the flight with 105 passengers.
on Friday afternoon, said director of the foreign ministry’s Consular Erik Brøgger Rasmussen, that all danes are scheduled to be flown out of the Philippines in the course of the weekend.
as the Ministry informs, however, Saturday, that there are plans for several Danish aircraft from the Philippines this weekend.
According to the Ministry of foreign affairs has all the danes in the Philippines, which wanted the return home, got the offer to buy the ticket for the særflyvningen to 10.500 euros.
Besides, the embassy in Manila and sent teams of officials the most recent week worked in order to bring the danes to Manila and Cebu, where the plane picked up passengers.
– The most important thing for us is that we have made this opportunity available to all those who have had the desire to get home.
– There can be various reasons that you do not select it (to buy the ticket, red.). Maybe you got a different aircraft, perhaps one has chosen to be, and so there may be someone who has had a hard time getting to the different airports.
– But we can at least say that we’ve got all the danes home, which would have a ticket home, says Jeppe Kofod.
He says that the ministry continue working to find solutions for the danes, who still may be stranded in the Philippines and other places in the world.
in addition to the 105 danes are also 179 citizens from other countries on board on the plane. It is primarily nationals from the nordic countries, as well as employees from the Danish authorities.
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