Philippines Students - Avoid Jeju Air for Korea transit

[prospectiveab]

They recently started operating special flights only, and if you had booked your commercial flight with them, they will likely give you no update and the day you attempt to board your flight they'll ask for a Korean passport to let you do so.

They denied me for Cebu (Air Canada booking) last Friday, and finally today I was able to talk to an english-speaking customer representative and they told me it's the Korean government that picked Jeju Air to operate special flights from Cebu to ICN.

The staff didn't tell me anything, they only asked me to contact my airline. If you are affected by the timezone difference then your travel is now considered essential as per the recent update:

Your travel to Canada may be considered non-discretionary as a student if

• you already live in Canada
• you need to be in Canada for your program (for laboratory work, workshops, or similar)
• your school isn’t offering online study options
• you can’t study online from your home country because of internet restrictions or bandwidth limitations
• you can’t participate in live online classes from your home country because of the difference in time zones

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio.../coronavirus-covid19/students.html#exemptions

If you need anything regarding travel requirements let me know, I am a foreigner temporarily living here in Cebu and now stuck because of airline mistakes.