Demand increase pushes airline to expand domestic flights

Air Niugini has further expanded domestic flights and capacity from last Friday because of an increase in demand, says chief executive officer Bruce Alabaster.
“When we reintroduced 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,” he said.
“As demand recovers we are
now delivering on that promise
and adding more flights on most routes.”
Some of the improvements include:

• Increase of nonstop Wewak flights daily;
• Doubling of flights between Lae/Madang/Wewak to six weekly (except Sunday);
• Increase of Vanimo flights from five weekly to daily including three via Lae/Madang/Wewak;
• Restoration of Fokker 70 jet services to Kavieng via Hoskins; and,
• Addition of third weekly service to Buka on Monday, July 20 and 27. Flights now operate on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.