September 29, 2021
Mobile Vaccine Units Being Deployed To Buiness And Government Offices.
The COVID-19 Vaccination Ministerial Task Force is now deploying Mobile Vaccine Units to business houses and government offices, commencing initially in Port Moresby, to be followed by Lae and rest of the other centres. Thirty (30) Air Niugini staff at seven mile in Port Moresby were amongst the first to have received vaccination yesterday, under this new initiative. PNG�s Pandemic Response, Controller David Manning who was present during the rollout highlighted the importance of increased vaccination and the benefits on the general economy.
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September 28, 2021
Air Niugini resume flights from Cairns to Port Moresby
Air Niugini CEO, Mr. Bruce Alabaster announced today(Tuesday 28th September, 2021) that the airline will operate four special Boeing 767 widebody jet flights from Cairns to Port Moresby between now and Christmas.Flight PX 093 will operate on Wednesday�s 06th October, 03rd and 24th November, and on 22nd December 2021. These flights are mainly scheduled to carry freight for exporters in Far North Queensland up to Asia.�� This will include fresh produce and fish from Cairns onto both Hong Kong and Singapore, but are also available for passenger booking from Cairns to Port Moresby.
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September 17, 2021
Air Niugini services to Manila, Philippines between 19th and 30th September, 2021
Air Niugini wishes to advise customers that the Philippines Government has advised that no passengers originating in PNG may be carried from PNG to the Philippines on any flight during the period 19th � 30th September, 2021. This is due to the increase in COVID-19 within Papua New Guinea.
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September 6, 2021
Air Niugini Flights to Sydney Australia
Air Niugini would like to advise customers that due to the current outbreak of COVID-19 in New South Wales, Australia, the Australian Government has placed further restrictions on the number of passengers on board all aircraft arriving into Sydney.
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August 26, 2021
Air Niugini wins court injunction against Matrix Construction
The public may have seen advertisements in newspapers by Matrix Constructions calling for a creditors’ meeting. This followed moves by Air Niugini to progress the winding up of Matrix Constructions in the National Court due to their failure to pay Air Niugini outstanding costs. Air Niugini was successful in legal proceedings in 2020, where the…
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July 29, 2021
ICCC DECLINES APPLICATION TO PURCHASE SHARES IN PNG AIR
In November 2020, Link PNG was approached by PNG Air who requested that Link PNG reapply to ICCC to purchase shares in PNG Air (being the shareholding presently held by Nasfund).� Upon PNG Air�s request, Link PNG made this re-application to ICCC
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July 22, 2021
AIR NIUGINI FLIGHTS TO MADANG
Further to our last update on 6th July advising of the temporary suspension of Air Niugini flights to Madang from 23rd July, the National Airports Corporation (NAC) has advised that the next stage of the runway upgrading works has been delayed by three days and will now commence at 0600am on Monday 26th July.
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July 19, 2021
LINK PNG RESUMES SERVICES TO WAPENAMANDA AIRPORT, ENGA.
Link PNG, a subsidiary of Air Niugini has resumed services to Wapenamanda airport, Enga Province today, Sunday 18th July 2021.Flight PX 990 arrived to a small but significant ceremony at Wapenamanda airport this morning, witnessed by Enga Governor, Sir Peter Ipatas, Link PNG General Manager Alex Kia and staff.
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July 12, 2021
RESUMPTION OF LINK PNG FLIGHTS TO WAPENAMANDA
Link PNG, a subsidiary of Air Niugini wishes to advise the general public that the airline will resume flights to Wapenamanda, Enga Province, commencing on Sunday 18th July, 2021. Link PNG suspended services to Wapenamanda in September 2019 to allow for major upgrade works to the runway by National Airports Corporation (NAC). These runway upgrade works have now been completed and Link PNG is pleased to be able to restore services to Wapenamanda and the surrounding communities once again.
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July 7, 2021
AIR NIUGINI FLIGHTS TO MADANG & WEWAK
Air Niugini would like to inform the travelling public that the runway lengths at Madang and Wewak airports are further shortened by the National Airports Corporation (NAC) to allow for runway maintenance and upgrading works at both airports. As a result of the above, Air Niugini flights to and from Madang and Wewak are being operated by Dash-8 turboprop aircraft, operated by our subsidiary company Link PNG.
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July 1, 2021
REVISED REQUIREMENTS FOR INTERNATIONAL PASSENGERS TRAVELLING TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA FROM OVERSEAS
Air Niugini wishes to advise customers that the Controller of the National Control Centre (NCC) for COVID-19 has issued an updated Direction dated 30th June, 2021 for international passengers travelling to Papua New Guinea (PNG) from overseas countries.
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June 29, 2021
Resumption Of Fokker Jet Services To Tokua Airport And Temporary Downgrade Of Services To Nadzab
Air Niugini wishes to advise the traveling public that the airline has now resumed its Fokker jet services to Tokua airport, Rabaul effective today, Tuesday 29th June 2021. The resumption of Fokker flights follows the completion of runway repairs by the National Airports Corporation(NAC). Since the works on the airport runway commenced in February last year, Air Niugini has been operating to Tokua airport using the 76 seat Q402 and 50 seat DHC-8-315 aircraft, but with passenger numbers restricted to as few as 20 at times because of the shortened runway.
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June 28, 2021
Air Niugini Trains New Travel Consultants
Air Niugini continues to resize in order to become a long term efficient, sustainable and profitable business. On Friday 18th June 2021, the airline successfully completed a two week training course for 12 new travel consultants.� The training covered mainly reservations and ticketing processes using the Sabre Reservations system that is used by many other airlines around the world. The travel consultants came from Air Niugini Sales offices in Goroka, Hoskins, Madang, Kavieng and Port Moresby. Air Niugini�s General Manager Commercial Services, Mr Dominic Kaumu was satisfied with the outcome of the training, adding that it is not only about selling tickets but gaining the confidence of customers and providing excellent customer service.
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June 17, 2021
AIR NIUGINI FLIGHTS TO CAIRNS
Air Niugini would like to advise customers that the Australian Government has extended the suspension of international arrivals into Cairns until at least the 30th June. This is in order to manage the risk of arriving passengers subsequently testing positive for COVID-19 during their stay in quarantine facilities. For the period 19th – 30th June flights from PNG to Cairns have therefore had to be cancelled. Passengers holding tickets for Cairns flights over this period should contact Air Niugini or your travel agent for rebooking options.
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June 1, 2021
COVID PCR TEST REQUIREMENTS FOR INTERNATIONAL PASSENGERS DEPARTING FROM PORT MORESBY
Air Niugini has partnered with International SOS to deliver PCR testing at Jacksons Airport for all passengers departing on Air Niugini flights.� With International SOS having operated in Papua New Guinea for over 28 years and employing more than 400 Papua New Guinean health workers,� Air Niugini believes they are well placed to support the delivery of this testing program.�PCR testing of all international passengers departing from Port Moresby commenced on the 17th May, following its upgrade from the prior Rapid Antigen testing. Now that we have two weeks of evidence of effective implementation Air Niugini advises this test at time of check-in is considered to meet the requirement to have a COVID test within 72 hours of international travel.
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