Airline providing same-day return trip from Cairns on Fridays

AIR Niugini passengers can now make a same-day return trip to Port Moresby from Cairns on Fridays, managing director Alan Milne says.
“Air Niugini has adjusted its Cairns/Port Moresby schedule to give business travellers from North Queensland the opportunity to make a same day return trip to Port Moresby from Cairns on Fridays, saving them the time and expense of overnighting in Port Moresby,” he announced yesterday.
Milne said this was a route which the airline hasd been serving continuously since 1975.
He said an additional feature of the new schedule was that customers from Cairns would be able to make direct same day connections via Port Moresby to both Honiara (Solomon Islands) and Nadi (Fiji).
“Air Niugini was the first overseas airline to service Cairns,” he said.
“These latest new connections and same-day travel options demonstrate the airline’s long term commitment to the Cairns region, and to our strategy of further developing air and trade links between North Queensland and Papua New Guinea and between Cairns and other Air Niugini destinations across Asia and the Pacific via our Port Moresby hub.”
He said effective from Sept 5, a new PX098 service would depart Port Moresby on Thursdays at 5pm, returning on Fridays as PX 091 departing Cairns at 6.30am, arriving in Port Moresby at 7.55am.
The return flight PX098 departs Fridays at 5pm and arrives in Cairns at 6.25pm, allowing travellers a full day in Port Moresby to conduct their business. “The new PX091 service on Friday mornings also gives customers the opportunity to conveniently connect from Cairns to Honiara on Fridays from Sept 6, and from Cairns to Nadi on PX091 Saturdays from Nov 2 onwards – both via an easy connection in Port Moresby,” Milne said.
“In the opposite direction, same day connections via Port Moresby are also available from Honiara to Cairns, and from Nadi to Cairns.
“Air Niugini already offers North Queensland customers the same day connections between Cairns and Manila, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Chuuk and Pohnpei – all via Port Moresby.”