Air Niugini New International and Local Flight Schedule announced

MEDIA RELEASE NORTHERN SUMMER SCHEDULE

AIR Niugini Limited wishes to advise that its Northern Summer schedule comes into effect on Sunday 29th March and is part of the airline’s effort to support PNG Trade, visitors and customers. Under the new schedule, Air Niugini will now operate three times a week to Hong Kong every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, allowing more frequent connections to North Asia. The airline currently operates on Tuesdays and Saturdays. 

Air Niugini had re-timed its first morning service out of Brisbane, PX 006 to a new time of 07:55am instead of 09:00am to give travelers the benefit of an earlier arrival into Port Moresby at 11:05am. The second daily service from Brisbane, PX 004 still leaves at 10:40am. From Port Moresby, departures to Brisbane are at 06:15am (PX 003) and 13:30pm (PX 005). 

Air Niugini will continue to operate twice daily services to Brisbane except for Saturday, where there is only one service. Air Niugini will also introduce the Fokker 100 jet on the Port Moresby/Cairns route. This route will now be operated by jet aircraft (Fokker 100/70) replacing Q400 aircraft. It saves 20 minutes travel time compared to the Q400, and allows more capacity for freight. On the domestic front, F100 services between Port Moresby and Lae are increased to 4 per day, and there is an additional Q400 flight to Vanimo on Thursdays, making 5 services per week. Q400 Kieta services are re-timed to connect with international flights in Port Moresby. 

Interestingly, Air Niugini’s subsidiary company Link PNG Limited will commence commercial flights to Losuia airport in Kiriwina, Milne Bay Province on Monday 30th March with direct flights from Port Moresby every Monday and Friday. In addition, Link PNG will introduce flights between Kiunga, Mt. Hagen, and Lae, 5 times per week. These services continue from Lae to Hoskins/Rabaul. Link PNG now flies direct from Lae to Kiunga, Mt Hagen, Hoskins, Rabaul, Manus and Port Moresby. 

(Source: Illan Kaprangi/Facebook/Air Niugini’s Corporate Affairs Department, Friday 27th March, 2015).