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1. Aviation agency gets green light to hire 3, 500
The Department of Budget and Management has given the go signal for the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines to hire 3,544 workers, including 1,743 technicians.
Around 800 “organic” personnel, having satisfied the requirements, were retained or transferred laterally to and are no longer on a hold-over capacity. Another 2,744 positions are avacant, CAAP Director General Ramon S. Gutierrez said.
Dr. Abner B. Bondoc, chief financial officer, is named the chairman of the Placement Committee who will assist in the selection and placement of air t ransportation personnel.
Members of the committee are deputy director general Napoleon L. Garcia, Rodrigo G. Artuz, chief of staff; Luciano R. Macuse, supervising airways communicator; Rosario L. Hermosura buyer III; and Sylvia E. Fresnosa, acting chief, Human Resource Management and Development.
Gutierrez said that without the DBM intervention, the CAAP finds it hard to employ pilot, cabin crew, and other highly specialized workers whose salaries would equal those in non-government agencies.
Gutierrez said that the hiring of highly skilled personnel forms part of reforms being enforced in the aviation body.
These reforms in turn are intended to upgrade the Philippines’ regulatory capability and be able to meet international standards.
2. CA affirms ruling on EVAT on PAL fuel imports
The Court of Appeals (CA) has affirmed a lower court ruling preventing the Department of Finance(DOF) and its attached agencies from imposing expanded value-added tax(EVAT), particularly excise taxes on jet fuel importations, against flag carrier Philippine Airlines(PAL).
In a 22-page decision promulgated on September 21, 2011 penned by Justice Franchito Diamante, the appellate court's Special Third Division ruled that Pasay City Regional Trial Court(RTC) Branch 114 did not commit grave abuse of discretion in issuing an injunction order enjoining the DOF from relying on and implementing a Department of Energy (DOE) certification directing PAL to pay excise tax for its imported fuels.
The RTC ruling was handed down by Presiding Judge Edwin Ramizo.
The appellate court held that the trial court’s denial of the DOF’s and DOE’s motion to be heard did not constitute grave abuse of discretion as the same is discretionary on the part of the trial court.
“Grave abuse of discretion implies, such capricious and whimsical exercise of judgment as equivalent to lack of jurisdiction, or, in other words, where the power is exercised in an arbitrary pr despotic many by reason of passion or personal hostility, and it must be so patent and gross as to amount to an evasion of positive duty or to a virtual refusal to perform the duty enjoined or to act at all contemplation of law. None of these was committed by the trial court,” the ruling states.
PAL questioned a certification of DOE, which was based on a ruling by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), which gave no tax exemption on the airlines' imported products. The DOE said PAL’s imported fuels are available in the Philippines. The bureau insisted that aviation companies’ importations may not be given the same tax treatment as before for as long as there is an available supply of petroleum products domestically.
Under the EVAT Law, petroleum products and other indigenous fuels subject to value added tax.
Under Section 17 of the law, Aviation turbo jet fuels are imposed an excise tax pegged at P3.67 per liter of volume capacity.
Thus, PAL and all other domestic airline companies' aviation fuel importations were imposed excise taxes.
The the DOF and DOE moved to reconsider the trial court's ruling but was denied.
Citing grave abuse of discretion, the DOF and the DOE elevated the case before the appellate court.
3. More flights resuming, says PAL
The flight cancellations at Philippine Airlines are beginning to scale down, signaling the air carrier’s return to normalization—this as the ground-staff workers from new service provider Sky Logistics have adapted to the system resulting in the resumption of more PAL flights.
Since the new staff from Sky Logistics reported for duty at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 2, more and more domestic and international flights are being mounted by the air carrier.
Monday, only 54 domestic flights and 12 international flights were cancelled as PAL had transferred some of its operations to the NAIA Terminal 3, where some of their personnel are assigned.
While PAL is still working on full return to normalcy, PAL flight services between Manila and Dumaguete, Puerto Princesa, Cagayan de Oro, Tagbilaran, Kalibo, Iloilo and Tacloban will be operated from the NAIA Terminal 3. Free bus service is provided by PAL for its passengers to shuttle between the two airport terminals.
The check-in counters at the NAIA Terminal 2 are now fully manned. Philippine National Police – Aviation Security Group (PNP-ASG) chief Sr. Superintendent Abner Santos disclosed that PAL’s baggage build-up and breakdown areas as well as its catering center are now manned by the new employees.
Aviation NEWS By
Neha Jain
Aviation NEWS Reporter
1. Aviation agency gets green light to hire 3, 500
The Department of Budget and Management has given the go signal for the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines to hire 3,544 workers, including 1,743 technicians.
Around 800 “organic” personnel, having satisfied the requirements, were retained or transferred laterally to and are no longer on a hold-over capacity. Another 2,744 positions are avacant, CAAP Director General Ramon S. Gutierrez said.
Dr. Abner B. Bondoc, chief financial officer, is named the chairman of the Placement Committee who will assist in the selection and placement of air t ransportation personnel.
Members of the committee are deputy director general Napoleon L. Garcia, Rodrigo G. Artuz, chief of staff; Luciano R. Macuse, supervising airways communicator; Rosario L. Hermosura buyer III; and Sylvia E. Fresnosa, acting chief, Human Resource Management and Development.
Gutierrez said that without the DBM intervention, the CAAP finds it hard to employ pilot, cabin crew, and other highly specialized workers whose salaries would equal those in non-government agencies.
Gutierrez said that the hiring of highly skilled personnel forms part of reforms being enforced in the aviation body.
These reforms in turn are intended to upgrade the Philippines’ regulatory capability and be able to meet international standards.
2. CA affirms ruling on EVAT on PAL fuel imports
The Court of Appeals (CA) has affirmed a lower court ruling preventing the Department of Finance(DOF) and its attached agencies from imposing expanded value-added tax(EVAT), particularly excise taxes on jet fuel importations, against flag carrier Philippine Airlines(PAL).
In a 22-page decision promulgated on September 21, 2011 penned by Justice Franchito Diamante, the appellate court's Special Third Division ruled that Pasay City Regional Trial Court(RTC) Branch 114 did not commit grave abuse of discretion in issuing an injunction order enjoining the DOF from relying on and implementing a Department of Energy (DOE) certification directing PAL to pay excise tax for its imported fuels.
The RTC ruling was handed down by Presiding Judge Edwin Ramizo.
The appellate court held that the trial court’s denial of the DOF’s and DOE’s motion to be heard did not constitute grave abuse of discretion as the same is discretionary on the part of the trial court.
“Grave abuse of discretion implies, such capricious and whimsical exercise of judgment as equivalent to lack of jurisdiction, or, in other words, where the power is exercised in an arbitrary pr despotic many by reason of passion or personal hostility, and it must be so patent and gross as to amount to an evasion of positive duty or to a virtual refusal to perform the duty enjoined or to act at all contemplation of law. None of these was committed by the trial court,” the ruling states.
PAL questioned a certification of DOE, which was based on a ruling by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), which gave no tax exemption on the airlines' imported products. The DOE said PAL’s imported fuels are available in the Philippines. The bureau insisted that aviation companies’ importations may not be given the same tax treatment as before for as long as there is an available supply of petroleum products domestically.
Under the EVAT Law, petroleum products and other indigenous fuels subject to value added tax.
Under Section 17 of the law, Aviation turbo jet fuels are imposed an excise tax pegged at P3.67 per liter of volume capacity.
Thus, PAL and all other domestic airline companies' aviation fuel importations were imposed excise taxes.
The the DOF and DOE moved to reconsider the trial court's ruling but was denied.
Citing grave abuse of discretion, the DOF and the DOE elevated the case before the appellate court.
3. More flights resuming, says PAL
The flight cancellations at Philippine Airlines are beginning to scale down, signaling the air carrier’s return to normalization—this as the ground-staff workers from new service provider Sky Logistics have adapted to the system resulting in the resumption of more PAL flights.
Since the new staff from Sky Logistics reported for duty at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 2, more and more domestic and international flights are being mounted by the air carrier.
Monday, only 54 domestic flights and 12 international flights were cancelled as PAL had transferred some of its operations to the NAIA Terminal 3, where some of their personnel are assigned.
While PAL is still working on full return to normalcy, PAL flight services between Manila and Dumaguete, Puerto Princesa, Cagayan de Oro, Tagbilaran, Kalibo, Iloilo and Tacloban will be operated from the NAIA Terminal 3. Free bus service is provided by PAL for its passengers to shuttle between the two airport terminals.
The check-in counters at the NAIA Terminal 2 are now fully manned. Philippine National Police – Aviation Security Group (PNP-ASG) chief Sr. Superintendent Abner Santos disclosed that PAL’s baggage build-up and breakdown areas as well as its catering center are now manned by the new employees.
PHILIPPINES AVIATION NEWS
Aviation NEWS By
Neha Jain
Aviation NEWS Reporter
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