Can French citizens flying from Bangkok BKK to SFO do an international, cross-terminal transit in Manila Airport (MNL) with the COVID-19 restrictions?

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Philippine Airlines Ticket Town Office in Bangkok claims that "Philippine are still banned for all passenger transit flights to other countries":

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From: Ticket Town Office Philippine Airlines [email protected]
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 at 19:07
Subject: Re: Can French citizens flying from Bangkok BKK to SFO do an international, cross-terminal transit in Manila Airport (MNL) with the COVID-19 restrictions?
To: Franck Dernoncourt

Dear Sir,

Please be inform you that. As of now Philippine are still banned for all passenger transit flights to other countries.

For more information. Please see the below link. https://www.philippineairlines.com/en/ph/home/covid-19/arrivingintheph 

Best regards,
Saowanee

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 1:15 AM Franck Dernoncourt wrote:

Hi,

I am considering taking the flight BKK -> PR 731 -> MNL -> PR 104 -> SFO soon. However, PR 731 lands at MNL on Terminal 2 whereas PR 104 departs from MNL on Terminal 1.

I read on http://cms.olympicair.com/timatic/webdocsI/countryinfo.html (Philippines -> Visa -> TWOV): "TWOV does not apply when transiting between terminals. A visa and an airline escort are required.", which causes me concern since to go from PR 731 to PR 104 I would have to transit from terminal 1 to terminal 2.

Can French citizens flying from Bangkok (BKK) to San Francisco airport (SFO) do an international, cross-terminal transit in Manila Airport (MNL) with the ongoing COVID-19 travel restriction? Will I need a transit visa, and if so, can I get one on arrival or prior to departure?

Thanks,
Franck

I emailed the immigration head office at [email protected] and [email protected] and [email protected], as Crazydre suggested but they never replied to my inquiry. (Update 2020-12-24: I never got a reply from them).

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