Air Niugini announces expansion of domestic flights

AIR Niugini says it will further expand domestic flights from next week in response to slowly recovering demand following the state of emergency lock down.
Chief executive Bruce Alabaster said: “When we re-introduced domestic services, we operated limited services to begin with, and built up to our normal schedule once demand picked up.
“As demand recovers we are now adding more flights on most routes.”
The improvements include:

•  Restoration of a fortnightly direct F70 service to Buka on Fridays;
•  Increase of Lae flights to 28 weekly;
•  Increase of F100 Manus flights from four to six weekly – two extra flights via Madang are added to the existing two via Lae and two via Hoskins;
•  Additional three direct F70 flights to Hoskins on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday;
•  Fokker jet services to Wewak restored to daily, including nonstop services from Port Moresby as well as some via Lae and Madang;
•  Fokker jet services to Vanimo increased from three to five weekly;
•  Goroka jet services increased from seven to 11 weekly, with the resumption of afternoon flights on Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday to complement the existing daily morning flight;
•  Daru services increased from three to four weekly; and,
  Additional services to Rabaul and Kavieng, serviced by Dash-8 aircraft during the present NAC runway maintenance works at both airports.