August 3, 2020
Air Niugini Partners With Madang Resort Through Destinations Loyalty Program
Air Niugini Destinations Loyalty members can now earn and redeem points on the various products offered at the Madang Resort Hotel.This service is now fully operational following the recent signing of a two years partnership bringing the total Destinations corporate partners to 21. Destinations and Executive Club members will earn loyalty points not only on accommodation but also on a variety of activities like fishing, kayaking and sailing.Air Niugini�s General Manager Commercial Services, Mr Dominic Kaumu welcomed Madang Resort on board highlighting the need to focus on the domestic market and assist our partners with Post Covid-19 recovery strategy.
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July 29, 2020
Air Niugini Awards Staff For Smart Ideas
Air Niugini continues to recognize and award staff members who contribute best ideas towards the Smart Ideas campaign. The campaign is part of the four pillars under the airline�s Higher Altitudes Program which aims to reduce costs, generate more revenue, build a stronger and happier workforce and excel in customer offerings. Four staff from various departments within the airline were awarded on Friday, 17th July 2020 for contributing their best ideas during January and May this year. A few others were also acknowledged for their efforts.
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July 24, 2020
Air Niugini Announces Partnership With Bel Isi PNG
Air Niugini, the national Airline of Papua New Guinea (PNG) has joined Bel isi PNG by affiliating with the organisation to provide support to victims of family and sexual violence (FSV). The initiative recognizes the impact family and sexual violence has on employees, and the increasing costs to employers and businesses in general as a result of this. Air Niugini Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr Bruce Alabaster said with the joint partnership now in place, airline staff who are faced with family and sexual violence can now be able get timely assistance with well-coordinated processes and procedures in place to guide them.
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July 16, 2020
Air Niugini Increases Domestic Flights And Seats , And Resumes Fokker 70 Jet Services To Kavieng
Air Niugini further expanded domestic flights and capacity from Friday 17th July as there is continuous increase in demand following the April lock down. Air Niugini Chief Executive Officer, Mr Bruce Alabaster said �When we re-introduced domestic services in April we said we will operate limited services to begin with, and build up to our normal schedule once demand picks up. As demand recovers we are now delivering on that promise and adding more flights on most routes�
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July 13, 2020
Air Niugini Pilots Inspire 24 Orphan Kids From Remote Bundi
The twenty four children from remote Bundi, Madang have now arrived home and settled in at Mondia bridge Transit House at the foot of Mt Wilhelm, Chimbu after a memorable, inspiring day at Goroka airport yesterday with Air Niugini pilots and cabin crew. The children, mostly orphans between the age of six and 11 had not only fulfil their dream of seeing an Air Niugini aircraft for the first time, they had the opportunity to also board the plane and meet Air Niugini pilots, Captain Nama Mariole and First Officer (FO) Patrick Kiromat. FO Kiromat said �We are humbled to have crossed paths and be a small part of the lives of these little children and the journey they�re taking. We need more professionals in the aviation industry and we hope, we can be an inspiration to these kids, if we can inspire at least one of them, that�s good enough�
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July 13, 2020
Fail To Board Notice
To Our Valued Customers, We would like to remind travellers that we do have a fail to board policy which states that a ticket shall be forfeited in the event of a fail to board. Fail to board is when a passenger already checks in at the counter, has a boarding pass, but does not…
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July 13, 2020
Air Niugini Destinations Loyalty Program Launches Travel Competition
Air Niugini has launched a travel competition called the �Discover PNG Travel Pass� through its Destinations Loyalty Program. The Discover PNG Travel Pass competition was launched on Wednesday 8th of July and will run till the 18th of December, 2020. The competition aims to get all stakeholders including our airline, the hotels, tour operators and hire cars involved in sustaining and boosting tourism in Papua New Guinea.
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July 9, 2020
Updated International Air Travel Requirements
Air Niugini continues to provide essential air services to every city/town across PNG, as well as keeping supply lines open across the critical international network. At present there are no restrictions at all on domestic air travel.� Passengers will be temperature tested upon entering all airport terminals, provided a face mask at check and will need to fill in the passenger contact tracing form (APTF)
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June 25, 2020
Air Niugini Destinations Loyalty Program Partners With Gazelle International Hotel
Air Niugini Destinations Loyalty Program proudly welcomes onboard Gazelle International Hotel Limited (GIH) in East New Britain Province as the recent inclusion to its program, bringing the total Destinations corporate partners to 20. The airline�s General Manager Commercial Services, Mr Dominic Kaumu welcomed GIH to the program highlighting Air Niugini�s commitment to promote the tourism industry in Papua New Guinea. He said the partnership, like many others that the airline has, further compliments Air Niugini�s Post COVID-19 strategy to focus on the domestic market and promote local tourism.
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June 22, 2020
Resumption Of LinkPNG Flights To Tabubil
Link PNG, a subsidiary of Air Niugini wishes to advise the general public that the airline will be resuming flights to Tabubil, commencing this Friday 26th June 2020. The decision to resume flights was made following the latest State of Emergency(SOE) directives and the relaxing of restrictions by the airport operator. Flights to Tabubil were closed since April this year due to the COVID19 pandemic.
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June 10, 2020
Downgrade of Air Niugini Hagen services
Effective from today, Wednesday 10th June, Air Niugini flights to Kagamuga airport, Mt Hagen have been downgraded from Fokker jet aircraft to Link PNG�s Dash-8 and Q400 aircraft. This is to allow the National Airports Corporation(NAC) to carry out maintenance works on the runway.
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May 29, 2020
Air Niugini Distributes Personal Hand Sanitizers To All Staff
Air Niugini has gone a step further by purchasing and distributing personal hand sanitisers to over 2000 staff across its network as part of the ongoing measures against the corona virus. A total 5,000 hand sanitisers in personalised 120mls bottles with Air Niugini branding were airlifted from Singapore to Port Moresby on Wednesday. They are now being unpacked at the airline�s commercial stores for distribution to all staff across the network both here and abroad. One of Air Niugini�s Board Directors, Lady Aivu Tauvasa said the airline�s health and safety measures for both staff and passengers are ongoing adding that the recent step by ANG demonstrates its appreciation and concern for the staff.
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May 27, 2020
Link PNG and PNG Air To Drive Lower Airfares And Create Aviation History
Link PNG has today confirmed its bid to acquire some of PNG Air in a move that will benefit Papua New Guinean Nationals and travellers. Nasfund�s Board has approved the sale of its shares in PNG Air to Link PNG, subject to Independent Consumer and Competition Commission (ICCC) and other required approvals. Link PNG aims to strengthen the air network across PNG while ensuring the viability of the country�s second biggest airline at a time when airlines around the world are struggling to survive due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The same offer will be extended to all of PNG Air�s shareholders.
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May 27, 2020
Air Niugini Further Expands Domestic Services
Air Niugini will further expand domestic flights from next week in response to slowly recovering demand following the April lock down. Air Niugini Chief Executive Officer, Mr Bruce Alabaster said �When we re-introduced domestic services in April we said that we will operate limited services to begin with, and build up to our normal schedule once demand picks up. As demand recovers we are now delivering on that promise and adding more flights on most routes�.
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May 26, 2020
Air Niugini�s First Papua New Guinean Father And Son Captains
Air Niugini�s most senior Boeing Captain and the longest serving pilot Captain Paun Nonggorr and his son, Captain Jason Nonggorr have made history by becoming the first Papua New Guinean father and son Captains flying for the national flag carrier. Although they are not on the same aircraft type, their achievement as Papua New Guinean father and son Captains is the first for Air Niugini, if not Papua New Guinea. The senior Nonggorr is Captain on the Boeing 767 jet and his son Jason is Captain on the Fokker 100 jet aircraft. From the Koepka Ramdi Tribe of Koepka, Mount Hagen, Western Highlands, Captain Paun Nonggorr was also the youngest national to have attained Captain on Fokker F28 jet aircraft at the age of 26 in 1983. He has been with Air Niugini for 44 years, 35 of these years, since 1985, flying Air Niugini’s wide body Boeing 767, Airbus 310 and Airbus 300 aircraft on International routes.
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May 19, 2020
Air Niugini Resumes Flights To Buka
Air Niugini is pleased to advise the traveling public that we are resuming flights to Buka commencing on Friday 22nd May, 2020. The interim schedule will consist of one (1) flight operating on a fortnightly basis as approved by the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (ABG) State of Emergency (SoE) Controller. The first flight PX206 will depart Port Moresby on Friday 22nd May at 8am to Buka then continues to Rabaul at 11:35am. PX203 departs Rabaul at 12:40pm for Hoskins then returns to Port Moresby.
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