Philippine Travel Notes

This is Part 1 of the Sights & Scenes On My Iloilo To Cebu To Tacloban Flights. The final 2 legs of my Circle Trip , that brought me to Luzon, Mindanao, and back to the Visayas! Yep, flying back home to Cebu , but just in-transit to Tacloban . Let's Go! This was fun "so far" . An uncommon route. 'Di lang lamyerda , me kasamang work ! It went TAC ✈ CEB ✈ MNL ✈ CGY ✈ CEB ✈ CRK ✈ EUQ 🚌 ILO ✈ CEB and ✈ TAC. Ah, I said "so far" , since it's not really done yet! I'm writing this at the Cebu Mabuhay Lounge, waiting to board the last and final flight of this 'circle trip' back to Tacloban. I should be able to post this story tonite , when I have finally arrived. For who knows, other interesting sights and scenes may still occur from now until my arrival, right? Check-in: Iloilo Alright, continuing from the previous story, I went to the PAL check-in counters and got my boarding passes. Plural yes, because I had 2 flights: ...

== This story is a continuation ( topic #3 ) of a travel article I shared earlier == There are two kinds of these useless scanners as of now. There were even three, that third one was at every boarding gate - buti wala na ngayon. The 'first one' actually looks good (high-tech eh), and many passengers think it has significant use. The truth is, it's never needed! Why install it in an airport, when all it does is create a choke-point or another place where the weary passenger has to fall in line again. THAT is the ' first one '. As you can see in the picture there are three scanners. To the left (not in photo), after a building post is another three of them. That would make it six such useless nonsense. Those 6 scanners create a bottleneck of humanity to start (or add to?) the passenger's impatience or irritation. No, not the beautiful girl, just the equipment! Those girls are in fact very cheerful, friendly and helpful. Even if I do not know their names, I co...